CCCI slates trade missions in Dubai and Japan

The Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) is eyeing stronger trade partnerships with other countries starting off with trade missions in Dubai and Japan.

CCCI president Melanie Ng said the chamber is also pursuing sisterhood deals with some business organizations in Germany through the facilitation of AFOS.

The AFOS Foundation for Entrepreneurial Development Cooperation was founded by The Federation of Catholic Entrpreneurs-BKU, DEG-Deutsche Investions-und Entwicklungsgesellschaft, the German-Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, German International Cooperation (GIZ), and several other German organization committed to support entrepreneurial development in partner countries.

"We are exploring the possibility of a sister chamber arrangement with some chambers on Germany especially in support of our continuing project in the skills development for our Kto 12 Industry Academe Linkage program, "added Ng.

While the chamber is planning more outbound trade missions, it is also busy hosting inbound trade missions coming from different countries.

Cebu hosted different international trade missions from Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Israel, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Spain, and other countries from the ASEAN.