Walvis Bay woos Finnish shippers

A nine-member business delegation led by the Walvis Bay Corridor Group has just returned from a trip to Helsinki in Finland to promote Walvis Bay as the preferred route for imports and exports between Finland and southern Africa. Business development and transport facilitation topped the agenda at information sessions attended by key Finnish transport and logistics companies. “The development of the Walvis Bay Corridors would ensure economic development in Namibia and the region as we continually try to find ways to reduce the cost of doing business in the region,” said CEO of the WBCG, Johny Smith. The main commodities currently exported from southern Africa to Finland include fresh and dried fruits, wine, paper production, mineral products and poultry products while imports from Finland range from telecommunication equipment and paper products to machinery, timber and mining and metallurgical equipment.