Being a country still at infant stage of horticultural development, Vietnam can be a growing destination for Dutch technology and input supplies such as seeds and ware potatoes.

Vietnamese ports are coping with lot of challenges such as old and inefficient handling facilities, poor management and more importantly, poor infrastructure system linking the ports. Experts warned that port infrastructure will soon be overloaded and logjammed as Vietnam’s trade keeps growing.

Vietnam is ranked as the most attractive emerging market destination for retail investment in the world. Its first place was driven by strong GDP growth (7%-8% growth rate annually before 2009), strong FDI flow (US $64 billion of registered capital in 2008), the stable political situation, changes to the country’s regulatory structure favoring foreign investors, and increasing consumer demand for modern retail concepts.

The shipbuilding industry has grown significantly in recent years, mainly by heavy investment by the state-owned enterprise Vinashin. These investments involve a number of new shipyard projects to build ships in order to meet domestic demand and in the long run, to produce US$ 1 billion worth of ships for export per year. Aiming at becoming the number four shipbuilder in the world by 2015, Vinashin needs a total investment of US$ 5.14 billion by 2011.