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KenTrade Board of Directors led by Chairman Suleiman Shahbhal and staff were hosted by their Kenya Bureau of Standards-The National Standards Council (KEBS Board) counterparts for a joint meeting on Trade Facilitation in Nairobi.

We hosted a delegation from the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation led by Deputy Director Mr Matta Wegman at our head office in Nairobi. Our discussion centered on collaboration towards Kenya’s compliance with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) requirements on customs and border control and specifically the risk management on cargo clearance at the customs and border control units. KenTrade is ahead on this by facilitating regulatory and permit issuing state agencies through the Cargo

Our Chairman Hon.Suleiman Shahbal was today the guest speaker at the Kenya National Highway Authority(KeNHA) Board retreat in Serena, Mombasa. He was with KenTrade Board members CEO Amos Wangora and George Wanjau.

Ethiopia on Saturday January 5th, 2020 officially launched a technology-oriented Single import and export platform, dubbed Ethiopian Electronic Single Window Project (eSW), to ease the country’s overall import and export trading endeavour. The Electronic Single Window Project, which was officially launched by the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, brings together 16 Ethiopian government regulatory agencies, eventually enabling traders “to process all documentation relating to import and export through a single electronic submission. Ethiopia hopes that