Niš Airport inks deal to handle Uganda cargo

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Uganda has signed an agreement with Niš Constantine the Great Airport for it to handle cargo from the African country into the Balkans and Eastern Europe. The deal, inked over the weekend, gives Ugandan exporters more than 750 square meters of storage and shipment space, including cold storage, for goods that will be distributed in Serbia and onwards to Greece, Albania and Bulgaria. A number of Serbian companies in July confirmed orders for Ugandan vanilla, coffee, banana flour, cocoa, flowers, nuts and dried fruits amounting to 200 million US dollars. “This storage and shipment base for Uganda gives us much better access to a GDP market of over 100 billion US dollars of the Balkans. It will reduce storage and shipment costs once we connect it by air out of Entebbe. Ugandan companies can now use this as a testing ground for holding and conveying cargo in the region and beyond”, Odrek Rwabwogo, Chairman of the Ugandan Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development, said in Niš. Serbia and Uganda are expected to establish scheduled passenger flights next year, which will cater for cargo as well.