Jets Depart Saigon Belly Full as Samsung Spurs Exports

On a rainy Ho Chi Minh City night, a half dozen ground handlers in reflective vests grunt and yell as they jockey an aluminum container onto the main deck of an Airbus A320 cargo jet bound for Hong Kong.

“Look at this container -- packed full,” George Berczely, general director of DHL Express in Vietnam, said in late October as he stood in the cargo hold filling up with electronics, designer clothes and glassware at the airport in former Saigon. “This symbolizes the rest of trade in Vietnam. We are going to have a good fourth quarter.”