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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
BRITISH freight forwarder Oughtred & Harrison (Shipping) Ltd, (O&H), is to team up with one of Sri Lanka’s leading companies in the sector South Asia Logistics Ltd, with the companies signing an agency agreement to develop services between their respective countries.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE, in Columbo, Sri Lanka
THE AIRPORT Authority of India, (AAI), is studying ways to speed the clearance of cargo through Indian airports because of concerns that it is taking an excessively long time. V.K. Duggal, Chairman of Scope Air, (Standing Committee on Promotion of Exports-by Air), said at a meeting in Chennai, that the AAI was studying ways of reducing the time cargo remained at airports, notably by providing facilities to major airlines to set up their own X-Ray machines.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
DEMAND for ostrich leather, particularly from south Asia, has been one the result of the recent spread of foot-and-mouth disease across the globe, notably to Britain, Argentina, Uruguay, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The problems have created a scarcity in the market for bovine leather and there have been industry reports from India saying that there has been a resulting good demand for printed leathers, especially ostrich leather print, reflecting positive opinions that it is distinctive and elegant.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE, in Columbo, Sri Lanka
THE SRI Lanka government has drawn up a plan to develop the country’s rundown Ratmalana airport as a joint civil and military facility, at a cost of (SL) Rupees 880 million, a senior official of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Airports Development has told the island’s Press.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has lifted quotas and tariffs restricting imports of clothing products from the Ukraine, Sri Lanka and Bosnia. This follows a promise from these countries that they would reduce tariff and quota barriers restricting the export of EU-made clothing products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has lifted all quotas on imports of clothing products from Ukraine, following confirmation that Ukraine has lowered its tariff levels for EU textile exports, as agreed last year.

Brussels has also removed restrictive textile quotas for Sri Lankan clothing exports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EAST Asian shipping companies are expected to receive a boost from the ratification by China of the Bangkok Agreement, making one of Asia’s oldest trade accords the world’s largest in terms of market potential.

With China joining the arrangement – which is based on shared trade preferences – it becomes the largest regional trade arrangement, opening up a market with a combined population of more than 2.5 billion, said the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, (ESCAP).…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union has lost its appeal at the World Trade Organisation against last year’s disputes panel ruling, which censured its imposition of anti-dumping duties on cotton-type bed linen from India. The Appellate Body of the WTO disputes procedure has agreed that the EU did erect duties via procedures that broke international anti-dumping regulations.…

BY SWINEETHA WICKRAMANAYAKE AND ANNIE KEY
PROPOSALS are in the pipeline for airport construction projects, expansions and refurbishments throughout India and Sri Lanka. Over the next five years, there are plans to launch at least five new airports throughout the region, although it in anticipated that significant support from their respective governments will be required for them to be a fully fledged success.…