Participation
in the meeting, the WB Vietnam includes Mr. A Fock – Investment Plan Manager
and Mr. Nguyen Tan Hung – Energy Expert, co-Task Team leader of Transmission
Efficiency Project (TEP); while EVNNPT
includes Mr. Vu Ngoc Minh – President and CEO, Mr. Nguyen Minh Thang – Member
of Management Board; Mr. Vu Tran Nguyen – Vice President, Mr. Pham Manh Bien –
Chief Accountant and Directors of functional Departments: Planning,
International Relations, General Affairs of Management Board.
At
the meeting, EVNNPT’s Chairman Dang
Phan Tuong thanked the valuable support extended to EVNNPT so far by WB and Ms. Kwakwa herself. He warmly congratulated her
for the newly appointed position – Vice Chairman of WB in Pacific Asian area. Mr.
Dang Phan Tuong highly appreciated WB support, both in finance and capacity
building. He emphasized that, in the development and extension of EVNNPT’s transmission grid, WB is one of
the biggest partners of EVNNPT, with
the impressive funding of USD 1.12 billion for the completed and ongoing
projects. All the projects target on increase of power system efficiency,
optimizing power transmission system by evacuating capacity of the newly
constructed power plants, reducing the power blockage and overload, improving
the power quality, minimizing power loss, overcoming faults, managing and
operating effectively the power transmission network.
EVNNPT’s Chairman of Management Board
Dang Phan Tuong congratulated Ms Kwakwa for her newly appointed position
Ms.
KwaKwa also congratulated the achievements gained by EVNNPT since its establishment and recognized EVNNPT’s efforts in carrying out projects. She expressed happiness
that she would continue supporting EVNNPT
in the newly appointed position.
Continue
the discussion, Mr. Dang Phan Tuong proposed WB to support EVNNPT in solving 3 following issues so
that EVNNPT could step by step rise
up to reach target on becoming one of the leading transmission companies in
Asia:
1.
Providing EVNNPT with information
share on model, organization structure and operation modes of transmission
providers in the region and the world.
2.
To continue supporting EVNNPT in
deploying the human resources capacity
building, with an orientation to a target of increasing labour productivity and
speciality.
3.
To provide information and experiences on solving the exchange rate loss so
that EVNNPT could study and find out
the most suitable and effective solutions. This is the biggest financial
difficulties faced by EVNNPT because
of the fact that most of EVNNPT’s
investment fund is from foreign currency loans and in the coming time, EVNNPT would continue getting international
loans in foreign currency.
Ms.
KwaKwa was happy with such proposals because she has many meetings with
enterprises of various countries, most of them proposed her to provide
financial support. Apart from financial support, WB could provide support in
capacity building by sharing knowledge, advanced technologies, international
experiences and updated information in many aspects... She revealed that
under the strength of a multilateral organization, with a global network of
abundant diversified database and excellent expertise, WB is willing to provide
support, share information and assign its experts to work with EVNNPT to understand EVNNPT’s demands for providing the most
efficient support.
Chairman
Dang Phan Tuong, once again, thanked the enthusiasm extended by Ms. Kwakwa and
expected that WB would have more opened criteria on project selection and
considering support in projects connected to power sources because these
projects are often big and significant to the development of Vietnam power
transmission grid.
The
meeting closed in a warm and opened atmosphere. Ms. Kwakwa and Mr. Dang Phan
Tuong expressed a strong belief in cooperation relationship between WB and EVNNPT, which will become expanded and more
efficient./.