SPONSORS OF REGIONAL FOCUS
WORLD TRADE CENTRE TO TAKE HUMBER MESSAGE AROUND THE GLOBE
A major drive to promote the Humber’s key sectors and build on international trade opportunities has been launched by World Trade Centre Hull & Humber.
COLLABORATION Collaborating with UK Trade & Investment, Team Humber Marine Alliance and the Renewables Network, the centre is working to help bring renewable energy related businesses to the region and encourage start up businesses in the sector. It is also promoting the Humber through its international networks.
Rob Penrose, World Trade Centre Director and Managing Partner of Andrew Jackson, said: “We are proactively seeking new global business relationships in areas where the Humber has specific expertise such as renewable energy.
“With the UK competition for inward investment in the sector being fierce, the World Trade Centre is playing its role in making the Humber an attractive proposition and in finding international business leads for the many expert supply chain businesses based here.”
INTERNATIONAL TARGETS Four countries are also being targeted over the coming months - Brazil, Russia, Qatar and India - utilising the global World Trade Centers Association network (WTCA), with a trade mission to Brazil scheduled to take place in June.
Carolyn Burgess, Chief Executive of Language is Everything and Director of World Trade Centre Hull & Humber, said: “We are now making a sustained effort to act as an international marketing arm for businesses operating from the Humber.
“We have a strong role to play in complementing the work UK Trade & Investment, Team Humber Marine Alliance and the Renewables Network, all of which are based at the centre.”
PRIVATE SECTOR OWNERSHIP Now in its second year under private sector ownership, World Trade Centre Hull & Humber has held regular international trade events, introduced a 24-hour interpreting service, and represented the Humber in Moscow, Doha, Recife and Sao Paulo. In December 2011, the centre met with other world trade centres at the WTCA headquarters in New York to look for new business partnerships.
Lindsay West, Joint Managing Director of Garthwest and a World Trade Centre Director said that the recession had brought home the importance of the need to broaden our horizons. ”We have tried something different and it has started to bring results,” he said.
“We have always wanted the World Trade Centre to be a hub for business and feel that its new location at Queen Street and energy from the partners has helped us achieve that in a short space of time.”
offshore wind vessel operating out of the Port, survey craft Titan Endeavour, which is working on the Dogger Bank development.
Scarborough and Whitby Port now have a number of live and significant inward investment enquiries in support of the Offshore industry for survey, supply and operations and
EXPERT SERVICES AND STATE-OF- THE-ART FACILITIES Many companies in the region have been making use of the world trade centre’s expert services and facilities, which include its team of international trade advisors from UK Trade & Investment, its meeting and conference spaces and videoconferencing facilities.
World Trade Centre Hull & Humber
www.wtchumber.com
maintenance activity and we are bringing forward new fully serviced business space to accommodate these new investments.
The future for the Scarborough and Whitby area is looking very promising and they will be doing everything possible to keep the momentum to invest in their people, partnerships and infrastructure to ensure they maximise the economic benefits of this new and exciting sector.
Scarborough Borough Council
www.scarborough.gov.uk
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SECTOR PARTNERS The not-for-profit business is currently supported by nine private sector partners: Language is Everything, Garthwest, Andrew Jackson, Neill & Brown Global Logistics, Henderson Insurance Brokers, HSBC, Select Group, Mapa Public Relations and newly signed up Smailes Goldie Chartered Accountants. Associate supporters are IT @ Spectrum and Safety and Risk Management, with Hull City Council performing an advisory role.
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