On January 25th, the Flanders-China Chamber of Commerce (FCCC), co-organized an in-person event, "Towards a New Global Balance: Supply Chain & Logistics Challenges in EU-China Trade”, hosted at Ahlers House in Antwerp. Ms. Gwenn Sonck, Executive Director of the Flanders-China Chamber of Commerce and the EU-China Business Association, and Dr. Chrisoula Papadopoulou, President, CSCMP Benelux, welcomed the participants and introduced the speakers.
Our guests had a chance to dive deep into four key topics:
• Macro-economic and geopolitical evolutions in the EU-China-Russia relations and their impact on global supply chains and logistics by Prof. Koen Schoors, Professor of Economics, Ghent University
• A Belgian perspective on EU-China forwarding and logistics by Mr Johan Elzes, Global Business Unit Director, Ahlers
• AI for e-commerce – Fast and Personal by Ms Jennifer Wang, Head of Tmall Global Europe, Alibaba Group
• A framework for managing risk, resilience, and compliance in EU-China trade by Mr Matteo Bianchi, Senior Associate, Export Controls & Sanctions, PwC Belgium
A Q&A and group discussion and a networking dinner concluded this successful in-person event.
