Government helps the expansion of the logistics sector in Hungary
Hungary’s government is drafting a package of proposals to double the forwarding and logistics sector’s share of GDP to 10 percent by 2030.
The package being drafted with the involvement of industry players would limit the number of subcontractors in the logistics chain, set minimum service fees and upgrade border crossings and transit corridor capacities to allow goods faster entry into the European Union, Márton Nagy, the minister of economic development, told a conference organised by think-tank Századvég on Tuesday.
The government aims to make the Röszke crossing at Hungary’s border with Serbia “the most important logistics hub not just in central and eastern Europe but in the whole of Europe,” he added. Nagy noted that headcount in the logistics sector stood around 285,000 last year, accounting for 6 percent of all economically active people.
He pointed to the growing role of warehousing in the sector and said warehouse capacity in Hungary had doubled to 2 million square metres between 2021 and 2023, with Hungarian companies taking a leading role in that expansion.
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Hungary to open humanitarian development centre in Chad
Hungary’s government is opening a humanitarian development centre in Chad within the Hungary Helps programme, the state secretary for aiding persecuted Christians said on Facebook on Tuesday. The permanent representation is going to coordinate humanitarian and development programmes in the country and the Sahel, Tristan Azbej said. The “milestone” in Hungary’s role in Africa comes after political instability, civil wars, armed conflicts and the persecution of Christians are threatening to unleash an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe”, Azbej, who also heads Hungary Helps, said. That would have an important impact on Europe and Hungary, he added.
If Chad, “the last stable country in the region”, also falls, a large mass of migrants “posing great risks to Europe” could break out for the continent, he said. The centre will provide medical services for people arriving from conflict zones in the region, and to Chad citizens who are constantly under threat from the Boko Haram terrorist organisation, he said.
It will also capitalise on Hungarian know-how on agriculture and water management to help people facing hunger to get safe food, drinking water and irrigation in a country on the edge of desertification, he said.
“These long-term goals may contribute to Africa becoming the continent of opportunities, rather than the continent of dangers. Because we need to take help where it is needed rather than bring people in trouble to Europe,” he said.