This week I was in Brazil to speak on the Annual Allianca Procomex conference on AEO Brazil. The theme of this year was “AEO programmes in South America” and regional programmes.
These are always amazing conferences, it was the 4th time the event was arranged.
More than 350 people attended the conference this year, despute being held in Xmas week. Previous years it has been the week before.
Under-Secretary Ronaldo Medina from Receita Federal, opened the conference with a passionate speech about AEO Brazil.
The AEO Brazil programme is now, after 4 years, entirely moved to operations and tjis week we closed the AEO project after four years. An emotional moment.
Dr. Enrique Canon, Chairperson of the World Customs Organization (WCO) and Director of Uruguay Customs såoke about AEO in the 182 Member States of WCO and its importance for the world economy and the trade supply chain, Dr. Canon is a very good speaker.
Dr. Ernani Checcucci, Director of Capacity Building of the WCO – and my old colelague and very dear friend – spoke on all WCO initiative on AEO and the upcoming WCO Global Conference (WCO AEO IV) in Kampala in March 2018.
I delivered a Key Note Speech on AEO Trends and Regional AEO Programmes including AEO EU and the regional AEO programme of the East African Community (EAC) plus how a regional orogrammebin South america can be developed and implemented,
Brazil and Bolivia signed a cooperation agreement for support in the AEO area.
I also chaired panel on Private Sector views of AEO in five countries; Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay.
it was great to meet all conference participants, colleagues and friends again. So many prople expressed their gratefulness over the work I and KGH have done in Brazil supporting the design, development and implementation of the revolutionary AEO Brazil.
I was really moved by all wonderful words. Obrigado!
Today we got the UEFA Champions League draw for the remaining teams in tournament 2017/2018.
We got some really interesting games to look forward to next year.
The last 16 in UEFA Champions League:
Juventus-Tottenham
FC Basel-Manchester City
FC Porto-Liverpool
Sevilla-Manchester United
Real Madrid-PSG
Sjachtar Donetsk-Roma
Chelsea-FC Barcelona
Bayern München-Besiktas
It is time for holiday season. I am just back from South America and i have spent the day on numerous different projects.
The Xmas tree is in da house
However – now it is time, for a short weeknd and holiday season vacation. At least for three days ahead. I have always loved christmas. It is my favourite holiday of the year.
Thank you for reading my blog. It has been a fantastic few monhts since I re-started the blogging again in October.
I have now 12.300 readers per month. An amazing number. My goal for 2018 is to overachieve the best month so far since I dtrtwd the blog in 2005, namely 15.200.
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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