Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visits Brazilian aerospace corporation Embraer

Photo caption — Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visits Brazilian aerospace corporation Embraer. Photo: Duong Giang/VNA

Introducing the Company to the Prime Minister and the delegation, Chairman and General Director of Embraer Francisco Gomes Neto said that Embraer is currently the third largest commercial aircraft manufacturer in the world, after Boeing and Airbus, with strengths in manufacturing aircraft under 130 seats. Embraer has more than 18,000 employees, operating in 80 countries around the world , with revenue in 2022 reaching 4.6 billion USD, and profit reaching 540 million USD. In Vietnam, Embraer Group has delivered 5 E190 aircraft to Bamboo Airways.

President Francisco Gomes Neto accompanied Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the high-ranking delegation to visit the exhibition area of Embraer's aircraft models and modern production facilities. Mr. Francisco Gomes Neto warmly congratulated Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on his official visit to Brazil and thanked the Prime Minister for taking the time to visit the Group, highly appreciating the potential of the Vietnamese market, suitable for the Group's available aircraft models, especially suitable for short-haul flights and not too large number of passengers.

The company's Chairman expressed his wish to continue receiving the attention and support of the Vietnamese Government in the process of seeking cooperation opportunities and expanding the market in Vietnam; ready to deploy aircraft maintenance and repair services in Vietnam, as well as providing technological solutions in the aviation sector.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that air transport has many advantages to develop, becoming a trend of the times such as convenience, speed with increasingly reasonable prices; investment in aviation infrastructure is also cheaper than other types of transport such as road and rail. The Prime Minister said that Vietnam's aviation industry has developed very rapidly in recent times along with the speed of socio-economic development, the increase in tourism demand and trade and investment activities, Vietnam now has many airlines operating and has greater potential for development.

The Prime Minister highly appreciated Embraer's commercial aircraft products in terms of operational safety and environmental friendliness; he believed that the group's new generation commercial aircraft could be a solution to help Vietnamese airlines develop their fleets while ensuring operational efficiency and flight safety. Expressing his belief in a more open future for aviation trade between Vietnam and Brazil, the Prime Minister suggested that Embraer expand cooperation and investment to develop the group's business ecosystem in Vietnam.

In addition to continuing to contact and discuss with Vietnamese airlines to seek opportunities for cooperation, business and research to participate in providing aircraft maintenance and repair services, the Prime Minister suggested that the group participate in training human resources in the aviation industry, provide short and long-term professional training courses for officials in the Vietnamese aviation industry, support Vietnam with technological solutions to help improve management capacity in the aviation sector, increase automation, support forecasting and prevent risks in flight management activities.

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