For the first time in 20 years, a general cargo ship sailing under the flag of Ethiopia and transporting a cargo of over 11,000 tons of sugar and rice docked at the Port of Berbera, in Somaliland. Representatives from the Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Services Enterprise (ESLSE), a public company that the Ethiopian government has recently announced to partly privatize and who owns 9 ships in total, including the one concerned, attended the ceremony of arrival of the vessel, announcing the commencement of regular scheduled liner service to this port, with another Ethiopian ship expected to arrive at Berbera next week.

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Twenty-eight (28) percent of African countries interviewed within the recently published International Trade Centre (ITC) Small and Medium (SME) Competitiveness Survey sees environmental regulations adopted by national governments as an obstacle to their operations. Micro-sized firms, in general are more impacted than larger firms, and are also the ones that act less for reducing environmental risks.

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