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| Event: | 2 ½ Day Training Course
with visit to WORLD CUSTOMS ORGANISATION Headquarters 
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| | Making Customs Your Free Zone Champion |
| | CUSTOMS PROCEDURES, NEW PROGRAMMES AND SECURITY ISSUES
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| Date: | Monday 5th to Wednesday 7th March 2012 |
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| Venue: | Novotel-Centre Tour Noire Hotel, Brussels, Belgium |
 NEWS about ZONES and INVESTMENT
From the WFZC Monthly Zones Activity Report Read or download our STORY OF THE WEEK
This is one of 20 news items gathered by our team each month - for full details of how to purchase this electronic service click on this link
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- IPA World News, leads and investor profiles on international company investment moves
The 2011 WFZC Convention was held in Shanghai, China, between the 8th and the 11th November 2011 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Pudong, Shanghai. More than 35 countries were represented and 300 delegates attended the Opening Ceremony hosted by the Mayor of the Shanghai Municipality.
The Convention was supported by the SHANGHAI FREE TRADE ZONES ADMINISTRATION (SFTZA) & CHINA FREE TRADE ZONE & EXPORT PROCESSING ZONE ASSOCIATION (CFEA)
Shanghai Free Trade Zones Administration was formed to bring together three of the major zones in the Shanghai region: Shanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone, Yangshan Free Trade Port Area and the newly established Shanghai Pudong International Free Trade Zone. This fundamental restructuring shows China at the cutting edge of Free Zone strategy. This event offered an insight into how the world's major zones will develop in the future and how smaller zones can emulate their success.
The Two Day Conference included a visit to Shanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone and Shanghai Waigaoqiao Port.
On behalf of all those present WFZC would like to express their gratitude to the co-organisers and hosts for a hightly successfull, well manged and enjoyable event.
See press links
At WFZC we monitor Special Economic
Zones around the world and more than 120 countries
now have some form of zone development programme - India, China & South East Asia, Middle East, North and South America, Russia and Central Asia, Europe and Africa.
Speakers and Delegates who have participated in our meetings represent a wide cross-section of organisations from almost all these countries, and from others considering their establishment - Zones and the Authorities who regulate them, Government Ministries, Investment Promotion Agencies, Corporates and Location Specialists as well as Investors, Banks and other Financial Advisers.
THE 2011 WORLD FREE ZONE CONVENTION WEBSITE AWARDS
supported by
2011 WINNER Category ONE ! BEST FREE ZONE WEBSITE
AND
2011 WINNERS Category TWO ! BEST ZONE AUTHORITY OR OTHER WEBSITE
ZONE AMBASSADORS
To mark the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of WFZC the Convention appointed a select number of Goodwill ‘Zone Ambassadors’.
Their role includes representing the interests of the zone movement to governments, business organisations, regulatory bodies and local communities and media.
These are for 3 year terms and these representatives of the Free Zone movement have agreed to provide a short briefing about events in their area mid way between the Annual Conventions.
The ‘Zone Ambassadors’ will be invited to include a reference to this appointment on their business cards and will be free to refer to their affiliation to WFZC during their term.
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Since 2001 WFZC has built up an unparalleled network of partners, sponsors and speakers who have contributed to events held in London, Brussels, Skopje, Cairo, Cape Town, Cannes, Izmir, Geneva, Paris, Kuala Lumpur, Charleston, Hyderabad, India, The Netherlands, Dublin, Ras Al Khaimah, Poland and China. See our History pages for reviews of the
events and our Library pages for a review of presentations which have been made.
WFZC MONTHLY ZONES ACTIVITY REPORT
Other Recent Events:
SUCCESSFUL WFZC TRAINING COURSE & STUDY TOUR TO SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES
IN POLAND
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Tuesday 14th to Friday 17th June 2011
Some visitors to SEZ Katowice
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Visits to M-Logistics in Katowice (photo) and Gillette in Lodz were highlights of this four day programme during which participants visited two SEZs. These two state-of-the-art facilities much impressed the visiting delegates from South America, several African countries and Georgia. They were joined by a number of participants from Poland.
Jacob Dencik from IBM-PLI, Brussels led the two days of seminar on Developing and Marketing Zones based on Understanding of Investor Decision Making and representatives from Katowice and Lodz Special Economic Zones made presentations and joined the discussion to talk about incentives, best practice and other topical issues.
WFZC would like to extend their thanks to Deloitte's Krakow, Katowice, Lodz, Poznan and Warsaw offices for their excellent administrative support and additional speaker content. It is hoped to hold more events of this nature in other countries in the future.
World Free Zone Convention in co-operation with DHV Group and the Port of Rotterdam
presented 3-day Training Course AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands
Port Master Planning & Special Economic and Industrial Zones
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Monday 4th April to Wednesday 6th April 2011
Group visit to Maasvakte2, Rotterdam after Port Master Planning and Zones training Course
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Highlights since 2001
- WTO Director General and EU Negotiator on WFZC platforms in 2001-2003
- IPAWorld supports Free Zone Website Awards (2002 - present)
- Foreign Direct Investment magazine becomes media partner (2002)
- Partnership with CEI / EBRD at Skopje governmental conference
- Report "Challenges, Threats and Opportunities for the world's Free Zones" presented at the Brussels Convention
- Daily News from Oxford Intelligence launched on WFZC website
- Visit to European Parliament and other European Union institutions (2003)
- Special analysis of International Law on Incentives, Benefits, Competition and State Aids in London 2003
- Courses and Training Division established
- WFZC becomes World Bank FDI Xchange partner (2004)
- Post Conference visit to Free Zones in Cairo, Egypt
- WFZC supports WAIPA (World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies) meetings in Geneva (2004 to present)
- WFZC infrastructure seminar at MIPIM international property exhibition in Cannes (2005/06)
- First WFZC meeting held in a Free Zone (Aegean Free Zone, Izmir) with Ministerial Round Table, resulting in Conference Declaration
- Financial Times publishes full page article on Free Zones (2005)
- WFZC assists with the launch of Pan African Free Zone Association (2005)
- Site Selection magazine from the US becomes new media partner (2006)
- World Customs Organisation & WFZC sign joint Declaration at Geneva Briefing & Forum (2006)
- AFZA (Africa Free Zones Association) Memorandum of agreement signed at Sixth Convention in Paris (2006)
- 2nd Joint Briefing with WCO held in their Headquarters Building in Brussels (2007) with a contribution from the China Free Trade Zone and Export Processing Zones Association
- First Annual Convention held in Asia (Kuala Lumpur) in November 2007 with Site Selection as new media partner
- REIDIN.com property and infrastructure information provider becomes new partner 2008
- Monthly WFZC Zones Activity Report launched in February 2008
- Port Master Planning 3 Day Training Course held in The Netherlands (June 2008)
- 8th Convention held in Charleston, South Carolina, USA in December 2008
- Supply Chain Management Master Planning 2 1/2 Day Course held in The Netherlands (March 2009 and April 2010)
- Ninth Annual Convention held in Hyderabad, India (December 2009)
- Infrastructure & Real Estate Investment Planning And Management For Zones And Industrial/technology Parks 3day training programme & study tour Dublin and Shannon Ireland July 2010
- Tenth Anniversary Convention held in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE ( November 2010) and Appointment of WFZC Ambassadors
- Port Master Planning & Special Economic and Industrial Zones in co-operation with DHV Group and the Port of Rotterdam Amsterdam April 2011
- Training Couse + Study Tour to Katovice and Lodz, Poland ( June 2011)
- 11th Convention held in Pudong, Shangai, China with joint communiqué ( November 2011)
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