Vietnam Looks Forward to Purchase Mitsubishi MRJ: Keidanren Chairman meets Vietnamese President

From Fuji Sankei Business Eye, March 7 2012

A mission from Keidanren, Japan’s to top business association, met with president of Vietnam, Mr. Truong Tan San, in Hanoi on March 6. Hiromosa Yonekura, chairman of Keidanren  and chairman of Sumitomo Chemicals, requested  the president to adopt Japanese technologies to build domestic infrastructures in Vietnam.

President San remarked on Japan’s first regional jet passenger aircraft, MRJ, under development by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Aircraft that he would ‘let Vietnam Airlines to reply to your request,’  that was quite unusual statement from a head of a state.

At the meeting, Hideaki Oomiya, vice chairman of Keidanren and president of Mitsubishi Heavy industries  told the Vietnamese president that his company was constructing a parts factory for aircraft in Vietnam in order to develop human resources to under take aircraft maintenance.

On previous day,  the mission got a commitment  from Vu Huy Hoang, the Vietnamese minister of industry and commerce that the minister had already instructed to relevant organizations to step forward to consider intoduction of MRJ. The regional jet, with collaborated sales pitch of public-private sectors, is now likely to be purchased by Vietnam.