The 18th Hermes Expo international exhibition projecting Greek products and services as well as trade relations between Greece and the US will be held in Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 4-5. In the context of the exhibition, a variety of events will take place, which will be attended by a large delegation from Greece representing prefectures, municipalities, communities and economic and financial agencies, as well as Thessaloniki mayor Vassilis Papageorgopoulos.

A Greek wine tasting event will be held on Wednesday at the Queens Museum of Art, in cooperation with the Greek Commercial and Economic Affairs Office in New York and the Queens Chamber of Commerce. On Thursday, a day event on Greek tourism will be held at Drexel University in Philadelphia, in cooperation with the local chamber of commerce.

Over the weekend, lectures will be held on the sidelines of the exhibition on matters concerning Greek-American trade relations.

On Monday contacts will be held with political and financial officials in Baltimore, while new cooperation agreements will be signed between Thessaloniki and Baltimore, as the two twinned cities launched cooperation in 1999, while the contacts will be wound up in Washington.

Hermes Expo International founder and chairman Paul Kotrotsos noted that there are multiple benefits for the participants, including the signing of commercial agreements for the import of products from Greece for the US market, promotion of Greek tourism and cooperation with American organizations, businesses and universities with their counterparts in Greece.