ECONOMIC AND TRADE OVERVIEW

The German city of Duisburg, the world’s largest inland container port, has become a logistics hotspot for Eurasian traders and logistic players thanks to its location. Being at the west end of the Yuxinou Railway, Duisburg links the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing to Europe. More

Sandwiched between Lithuania and Estonia, Latvia provides a strategic location in the Baltics for business operations targeting developed economies of the EU as well as the emerging markets to its east. The mushrooming of Latvian banks in Hong Kong and the ongoing talks regarding a Latvia-Hong Kong tax treaty further illustrate how Latvia is keen to develop itself into a business platform in the Baltics for Asian companies. More

To reclaim its centuries-old status as one of the key regional centres of commerce along the Asia-Europe trade routes, the Uzbek government has put in place an ambitious five-year plan to modernise its industry and develop new infrastructure. This, together with the extension of its economic cooperation with China under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is seeing Uzbekistan bidding to reinvent itself as a linked-in investment destination. More

Central Asian countries (CACs), consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, are not yet key export markets or investment destinations for Hong Kong companies, but they are playing an increasingly pivotal role in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). As a “super-connector”, Hong Kong is ready to deliver game-changing solutions for the 60-plus countries along the Belt and Road, including China’s immediate neighbours in Central Asia. More