News / Forwarders move in as new government brings an air of optimism to Myanmar

Yangon's traffic © Sam Whelan

Despite the heavy pollution coughed out of the exhausts of crawling city-centre traffic, a fresh sense of optimism in the air in Yangon, Myanmar’s former capital and commercial hub, is unmistakeable.

The country’s first civilian government was sworn in last week, following November’s elections when ex-political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi’s party won a landslide victory and the military conceded to power-sharing.

For Patrick Dick, Myanmar managing director of Switzerland-based freight forwarder The Freight Co, the political transition should mean new opportunities to assist ...