Dubai Chamber hosts Hamburg delegation
10-member team headed by Hamburg Chamber President discusses implementation of their recent Strategic Partnership Agreement
Dubai Chamber hosted a delegation from Hamburg headed by Mr Frank Horch, President, and Prof Dr Hans Jorg Schmidt-Trenz, CEO of Hamburg Chamber of Commerce during their visit to the Arab Health Exhibition and Congress, at the Chamber premises on Monday.
The meeting came as a follow-up to the signing of a Strategic Partnership Agreement in Hamburg during the 2nd Dubai Hamburg Business Forum held in the strategic German city last month. The two sides also discussed the implementation of the clauses of the partnership agreement and their cooperation of the University of Dubai and the Hamburg School of Business Administration.
HE Hisham Abdullah Al Shirawi, 2nd Vice Chairman and HE Eng Hamad Buamim, Director General and a number of directors and staff of Dubai Chamber as well as Dr Omar Hefni, President of University of Dubai, attended the meeting. As the health sector formed an important area of cooperation between Dubai and Hamburg, Al Shirawi stressed upon the need for more cooperation with the strategic German city in this area while urging the delegation to offer their Logistics expertise in academic courses followed by the Hamburg School of Applied Sciences, Hamburg School of Business Administration and the Kuhne School of Logistics and Management.
“Hamburg’s active participation in the Arab Heath Expo will definitely help the growth of the health industry as we want more of our people to be trained and developed in this area especially the private sector that is participating in a big way in medical facilities like the Dubai Healthcare City which requires
German expertise to set up latest medical equipment and the know-how to operate them.”
Al Shirawi urged the Hamburg delegation to work jointly with Dubai in the
area of arbitration as he said that the Dubai International Arbitration Center of the Dubai Chamber offered high standards of arbitration services as it has arbitration experts from different countries who take up international trade
disputes and solve them in an amicable way. He also cited the outcome of the student exchange programme as he said that the 14 students from Hamburg found the experience of studying at the University of Dubai quite exciting and that this cooperation augured well for students from both cities as it paved the way for more such joint co-operations in the future.
On his part, HE Franck Horch, the President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce thanked Dubai Chamber for their cooperation in the success of the 2nd Dubai Hamburg Business Forum held in Hamburg last month. “The success of the Forum is accredited to the open discussion and dialogue between the two sides. I am a big supporter of this, especially in the global crises times when it’s more important to communicate and strengthen business ties. This meeting provides us the opportunity to work more rigorously on pursuing the agenda of our Strategic Cooperation Agreement that we signed in Hamburg recently.”
Prof Dr Hans Jorg Schmidt-Trenz, the CEO of Hamburg Chamber gave a presentation on the dual system of education that emphasized more on vocational training which unlike other European countries provided fully trained professionals who were ready to start work from Day 1. He proposed to chart out a joint practical education programme for Dubai students in cooperation with the University of Dubai and proposed a number of joint training programmes for students from both sides.
Dubai Chamber also hosted a dinner reception in honour of the Hamburg delegation including Senator Dietrich Wersich, Head of the Ministry for Social and Family Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection in Hamburg, HE Frank Horch, Prof Schmidt-Trenz and other members of the delegation at the Godolphin Ballroom of the Emirate Towers hotel on Monday evening. The dinner reception was attended by Dubai Chamber officials and Dr. Amin Al Amiri, CEO for Medical Practice and Licensee, UAE Ministry of Health, Yahya bin Saeed Al Lootah, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Lootah
International, Haidar Al Yousuf, Transition Director, Dubai Health Authority and Dubai’s business leaders and speakers of the 2nd Dubai Hamburg Business Forum 2008.
