I am priviledged and honoured to be the President of the APT ( Association Professionelles des Transitaires de L`ile Maurice ) for year 2011/2012 and mainly at a time when APT will celebrate its 35th Anniversary this year. For the past 35 years , APT has been an active partner to the manufacturing and trading sector by providing freight & logistics solutions of high standards , supporting emerging new markets like Seafood hub and re-chanelling its activities to meet the requirements of new economic orientations alongwith safeguarding the interests of its members in a smart manner.

The past two years have been difficult to the freight industry due to the shocks of the recent financial and Euro zone crisises which had an adverse impact of about 14 % on our export volume to European countries and USA .Besides , limited export markets , fluctuations in main trading currencies , ....(read more)

Friday, 8th Jul 2011

Evergreen new plans for Mauritius

The shipping line Evergreen is carrying out negotiations so that at least one of its own vessels services Port Louis.

Evergreen has currently a slot-sharing agreement with the Japanese carrier Mitsui OSK Line on the route from Asia to Mauritius.

The container-carrying ships of Mitsui OSK Line, on average of 8 000 TEU, do the following port rotation: Malaysia-Singapore-Port Louis-Durban-Maputo before moving back to Malaysia.

At present, vessels of Mitsui OSK Line cast their anchor at Port Louis at a frequency of 3 calls per month, loading or unloading containers of both Mitsui and Evergreen whose representative in Mauritius is company fast Shipping & Transportation Co. Ltd.

Evergreen plans to introduce a vessel from its fleet to increase that frequency to a weekly basis.

This planned strategy of Evergreen is line with its objective to face the alliance that has been ....(read more)

Monday, 16th Jan 2012

Mauritius, 54th country in the world

The World Economic Forum has just published its Global Competitiveness Report 2011-2012.

Mauritius ranks overall at the 54th place out of a total of 142 countries. Concerning the quality of its port infrastructure, our island occupies the 49th position among the list of all countries. However, Mauritius has been ranked 55th when evaluated about the quality of its air transport infrastructure.

Furthermore, on the criteria relating to the efficiency of the goods market, Mauritius is well rated, 39th in the world concerning the prevalence of trade barriers, 31st about trade tariffs or percentage of duties and at the 41st place concerning the burden of customs procedures.

The report of the World Economic Forum stresses the fact that an efficient infrastructure is critical for ensuring the effective functioning of the economy of a country, as it is an important factor determining ....(read more)

Monday, 16th Jan 2012