Tanzanian business team leaves for 4-day trade forum in Turkey

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Tanzanian business team leaves for 4-day trade forum in Turkey

Turkey

A delegation comprising businessmen and industrialists is expected to leave the country in this week for a four-day forum in Turkey.

Dubbed Turkiye-East Africa Trade Bridge 2014, the forum will be held at Gaziantep city beginning Monday.

Speaking in an interview with The Guardian yesterday, Alliance of Businessmen and Industrialists of Tanzania and Turkey (ABITAT) President Ali Akiz said the businessmen, mainly from their associations, will attend the trade bridge forum in Turkey so as to extend their business opportunities there.

Akiz also said that about 25 businessmen and industrialists will attend the trade bridge in Turkey so as to experience the level of industrial development of Turkey which is the seventh largest economy in the world.

“We are going to look for the new opportunities where we can invest and also extend our network, the Turkiye-East Africa Trade Bridge 2014 could help us get new partners who we will be trading together,” he said.

The President also said that the Turkiye-East Africa Trade Bridge 2014 will be attended by buyers, resellers, importers and distributers in all fields of food, agriculture, cosmetics, carpet, textile, steel, home appliances and home and office furniture that would help the visiting delegation to learn from participants from other countries.

“We will have a good chance to learn from other businessmen from other countries because the trade bridge will attract 135 African participants besides the 20 exhibiting and 500 participating Turkish exporters,” he said.

Turkiye-East Africa Trade Bridge is a highly professional international business summit. It is open only to registered companies selected among thousands of applicants from Africa and Turkey, according to him.

The event is organised by TUSCON which is the largest and most prevalent business NGO in Turkey with 55,000 business members and more than 140,000 firms.

He noted that this is the first time for Tanzanian as well as East Africa businessmen and industrialists to attend the Turkiye-East Africa Trade Bridge since its establishment in 2009.”

Alliance of Businessmen and Industrialists of Tanzania and Turkey (ABITAT) represents Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists of Turkey (TUSCON), which has presence in over 130 countries worldwide.
In East Africa TUSCON has offices in Rwanda, Kenya, Burundi, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Tanzania.

ABITAT was founded in August 2012 by a distinguished group of Turkish and Tanzanian businessmen in Dar es Salaam, with a mission to improve industry contacts between Turkey and Tanzania, hence leading to increased investments in Tanzania.