Freight Assistance Package Provides Relief to Pacific Exporters
Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General, Dame Meg Taylor, said PTI Australia’s Freight Assistance Package is a proactive example of understanding and alleviating pain points currently facing the region’s private sector.
Source: Supplied Monday, 19 April 2021 09:48 AM
Pacific Trade Invest (PTI) Australia’s 2020 Pacific Islands Export Survey revealed that freight costs are one of the top three barriers to export faced by Pacific businesses, which was further exacerbated when COVID-19 drastically affected shipping routes and thus inflated costs.
To support Pacific exporters in the wake of COVID-19, PTI Australia launched the COVID-19 Freight Assistance Package in late 2020 and has now seen over 30 successful applicants receive the monetary grant.
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The body of the late member for Kerema, Richard Mendani arrived at the National Parliament House yesterday at 10am, accompanied by his grieving widow and family, for the Lie-in-State ceremony.
The casket was laid in the grand hall for members of parliament and dignitaries to pay their respects.
Among them was Prime Minister James Marape and Leader of Opposition Belden Namah.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, it was a closed casket ceremony with no viewing of the body.
The casket was in parliament for an hour before it was taken back to the funeral home where it will spend the night before being flown to Kerema early tomorrow morning.
Dame Meg Taylor Regarding
the Japan Decision to Release ALPS Treated Water into the
Pacific Ocean
13 April
2021
Suva, Fiji: In my capacity as Depositary
of the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of
Rarotonga), as Pacific Ocean Commissioner, and on behalf of
the Council of Regional Organisations in the Pacific: we
note, with deep concern, the decision by the Government of
Japan to discharge the Advanced Liquid Processing System
(ALPS) Treated Water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear
Power Station into the Pacific Ocean, and wish to highlight
and reiterate the position of the Pacific Islands Forum
region in relation to this matter.
Press Release – Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat Statement by the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Dame Meg Taylor Regarding the Japan Decision to Release ALPS Treated Water into the Pacific Ocean 13 April 2021 Suva, Fiji: In my capacity as Depositary of the South Pacific Nuclear …
Statement by the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum
Dame Meg Taylor Regarding the Japan Decision to Release ALPS Treated Water into the Pacific Ocean
13 April 2021
Suva, Fiji: In my capacity as Depositary of the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Rarotonga), as Pacific Ocean Commissioner, and on behalf of the Council of Regional Organisations in the Pacific: we note, with deep concern, the decision by the Government of Japan to discharge the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) Treated Water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station into the Pacific Ocean, and wish to highlight and reiterate the position of the Pacific Islands Forum region in r