On Wednesday 29^th May 2024 Customs Management together with representatives from Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) met the United Association of Salted Fish Importers, Exporters and Transporters to discuss the recent trend of fish from South Sudan and Kenya intended for the Ugandan market being exported to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) instead.

On Wednesday the 29th/05/2024, the Manager Eastern region together with the leadership team at Malaba One Stop Border Post (OSBP) met with Customs Agents under their umbrella body Malaba Customs Agents Association.

According to Paul Karatunga, the supervisor of customs enforcement in Eastern Uganda, the nine motor vehicles were caught conveying contrabands.  Source/Newvision.co.ug/full story

The construction of Bukasa Port has started with land reclamation.

Rose Mary Tibiwa, the commissioner for transport infrastructure services in the Ministry of Works and Transport said when completed Bukasa will be the only port country as  port bell and jinja are mere piers.

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URA participated in the recently concluded Mbarara City Traders’ Symposium, where it engaged traders on several issues, including customs processes and the Electronic Fiscal Receipting and Invoicing Solution (EFRIS), among others.

The URA Commissioner General has called upon the early adopters of the Electronic Fiscal Receipting and Invoicing Solution (EFRIS) to support their counterparts who are still facing challenges to enable EFRIS fully take off.

The expressway that will run from Kisumu to Kakira,a town in Jinja district, will involve rehabilitation of the existing two-lane single carriageway to bitumen standards and the upgrading of the same into the two-lane dual carriageway over a 104km stretch. Find full story.

The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) is hosting Partner States from the East African Community (EAC) to develop harmonised procedures for calibration and verification of road tankers, to facilitate trade.

The Minister of State for Trade, General Wilson Mbasu Mbadi has reaffirmed his commitment to support UNBS activities geared towards facilitating trade, improving the competiveness of Uganda products and protecting Ugandan consumers against substandard products.