Photos from the China: Trade Mission 2001

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Trade Mission participants attending an economic development conference in Nanning. This event was part of the recent PBB-led China Trade Mission 2001, where North American businesses made valuable contacts with Chinese officials during the 15-day, eight-city tour.

Mike Scott, President & CEO, PBB Global Logistics, accepts an honorary professorship at Guangxi University. The honor, in recognition of PBB's leadership facilitating trade with Asia, was bestowed during a ceremony held before two hundred students and faculty at Guangxi University. The Professorship was bestowed by Yu Jin, Party Secretary, Guangxi University.

PBB President & CEO Mike Scott meets with Zhang Wenxue, Vice-Governor of Guangxi, at a high-level function in Nanning. This was one of many high level meetings held during the recent PBB-led China Trade Mission 2001, where North American businesses made valuable contacts with Chinese officials during the 15-day, eight-city tour.

The Shanghai Federation of Industry and Commerce hosts a business conference with members of PBB's Trade Mission to China. From left to right: Song Yijun (Area Director, Ontario Exports Inc.), Steward Back (Canadian Consul General in Shanghai), Lin Jinping (Deputy Director, Shanghai Foreign Economic Relations & Trade Commission), Chen Ping Tian (Deputry Secretary General, Shanghai Federation of Industry and Commerce, Mike Scott (President & CEO, PBB Global Logistics), William Saunderson (Chairman, Ontario Exports Inc), Hailan Han (Translator, PBB Global Logistics).

Paul Nelson, President of Nelson Industrial Inc., meets with potential Chinese partners in Shanghai. PBB's China: Trade Mission 2001 afforded many opportunities for North American businesses to meet buyers, suppliers, distributors and manufacturers - strategically selected from across China to match their business needs.

Roy Katsuyama, President, Paramount Trading Co. Ltd., meets with potential Chinese partners in Shanghai. PBB's China: Trade Mission 2001 afforded many opportunities for North American businesses to meet buyers, suppliers, distributors and manufacturers - strategically selected from across China to match their business needs.

PBB's own delegates on the Trade Mission meet with high-level officials of Putuo District, Shanghai. The group stands on the future site of a major logistics development near Shanghai.

Rudy Kroeker, President & CEO, Whiting Equipment Canada Inc. shows guests including William Saunderson, Chairman, Ontario Exports Inc., around Whiting's joint venture plant in Tongxiang, Zhejiang province.

PBB Trade Mission delegates in front of Canadian-owned Com Dev, a manufacturer of wireless communications devices, located in the Suzhou Industrial Park near Shanghai.

The Mauseoleum of Dr. Sun Yet Sun in Nanjing, one of several world-famous attractions that members of the PBB Trade Mission to China had the opportunity to see during the mission.

PBB President & CEO Mike Scott joins with Beijing officials in the ceremonial ribbon cutting, opening PBB's new location in Beijing. The location will help meet growing demand from North American companies eager to access the Asian market. It will also provide local business development services to Chinese traders and will work with local agents and partners.

PBB President & CEO Mike Scott (left) joins dignitaries at the opening ceremony of the "Terre Sauvage" exhibition in Beijing. The exhibition, featuring over 70 famous Group of Seven paintings, in on a six-month of China. PBB not only is a sponsor of the exhibition, it was also entrusted by the National Gallery of Canada with shipping the priceless works of art to China.

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