PH Consulate General in Manado, PH Embassy in Jakarta and MinDa Holds Trade, Business Mission in Sulawesi
Consul General to Manado Oscar Orcine and the Philippine Consulate General in Manado team welcomes a delegation of businessmen and officials of Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) led by Secretary Emmanuel Piñol on a Trade and Business Mission in Sulawesi. (Manado PCG photo)
MANADO 26 November 2019 — Philippine Ambassador to Indonesia Lee Hiong Tan Wee and Philippine Consul General to Manado Oscar Orcine welcomed Secretary Emmanuel Piñol of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) along with some 40 businessmen and officials of MinDA and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The visiting delegation from the Philippines were on a trade and business mission to Sulawesi from 28 October to 01 November 2019.
Represented in the Philippine delegation are business interests in agriculture, aquaculture, cement, coconut and coffee processing, construction and engineering, education and training, fish processing, game fowl breeding, gold and nickel mining, packaging services, and waste neutralization and management, among others.
Over 100 Indonesian government officials and businessmen, led by the Provincial Government of North Sulawesi, met with members of the Philippine delegation to explore import and export opportunities in a business-matching activity at Sintesa Peninsula Hotel on 29 October 2019 in Manado.
On the same day, the Philippine Consulate General in Manado dispatched one team to Gorontalo and another team to Makassar City to lead smaller business delegations to similar business matching events. The two teams separately engaged Indonesian local trade officials and businessmen and presented opportunities to procure Philippine products and services.
In the week-long event, members of the Philippine delegation also visited a banana chips factory, cement warehouse, charcoal briquette factory, cookie factory, coconut processing plant, container ports, corn warehouse, herbal medicine factory, tuna canning factory, fresh tuna packaging facility and wastewater treatment plant, among others.
Contracts and agreements were entered into during the trade and business mission, some of which should translate to actual exchange of goods and money before the year ends. END
Consul General to Manado Oscar Orcine co-presides the business matching activity at Sintesa Peninsula Hotel where Philippine businessmen engaged potential partners in Manado, Indonesia. (Manado PCG photo)
Consul General to Manado Oscar Orcine assists Secretary Emmanuel Piñol in addressing the concerns of Indonesian businessmen about importing Philippine products. (Manado PCG photo)
The Philippine Consulate General team in Manado leads a sub-group of the Philippine delegation in a business matching activity in Gorontalo Province. (Manado PCG, photo)
The Philippine Consulate General in Manado team in Gorontalo. Philippine businessmen inspects a herbal medicine factory and Philip inspected a herbal medicine factory. (Manado PCG photo)
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