explain the significance of trade centres
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World Trade Center Harrisburg is a member of the World Trade Centers Association. The World Trade Centers Association, headquartered in New York City, is the umbrella organization for over 330 World Trade Centers in more than 100 countries. The Association stands outside politics across national boundaries, in service to those who develop and facilitate international trade.
Our members may utilize the services and facilities of all World Trade Centers throughout the globe. These worldwide privileges include meeting and club facilities, trade information and education services, exhibit space, access to temporary office space, videoconferencing facilities, secretarial and translation services.
Many associate a World Trade Center with a building, but not all licensed World Trade Centers actually have a real estate component. Since our inception, we have only concentrated on the delivery of trade assistance services and global trade promotion and we never have had a physical building. However in 2014, our Board of Directors started a “Building Committee” to search for potential opportunities in the southcentral Pennsylvania area. Historically, we have partnered with other non-profit organizations who generously provide office or meeting space for us and for many years we were co-located with MANTEC, which still generously provides an outreach office for us in York.
In 2016 we were introduced to John D. Moran, President and CEO of Moran Industries, Inc., a premier warehousing and logistics company based in Watsontown Pennsylvania. Moran Industries had recently purchased the former Capital View Commerce Center, an uncompleted building in Harrisburg, with plans to finish the building. We were able to “trade” the branded World Trade Center Harrisburg name for an office suite in the building and now Harrisburg has the first World Trade Center building located within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.