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Elita Chikwati Features Editor COMESA member states have been urged to cooperate in the utilisation of airspace to ensure safe and efficient operations for the public and communities. The members states are also urged to liberalise utilisation of airspace to reduce operational costs, improve the quality of air transport services and cut airfares. This came […]

Oliver Kazunga Senior Business Reporter ZIMBABWE and Zambia are working to establish a joint agro-industrial park, which will improve the availability of goods and services for the bilateral market and broaden intra-regional trade of manufactured products. The proposed project is being supported by the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), the African Development […]

Business Reporter Infrastructure experts from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Member States are meeting in Zambia to review the status of domestication and implementation of programmes in transport and communications, energy and information technology in the region. Among the key programmes in focus are; the establishment of a navigational route between Lake Victoria […]

Business Reporter THE Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa’s Zimbabwean secretary general Mr Sindiso Ngwenya’s tenure at the helm of the economic bloc is coming to an end next year.

Business Reporter The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) secretary general Sindiso Ngwenya said the region holds the highest potential for minerals development in the continent and this potential should be sustainably harness existing multinational trade agreements.

Enacy Mapakame Business Reporter ANNUAL demand for maize seed in Zimbabwe has increased 50 percent to 37 500 tonnes compared to 25 000 tonnes that was required prior the land redistribution programme in year 2000, while seed producers can now export the surplus.

Talent Hwari and Audrey Rundofa Government yesterday launched the National Domestication of the COMESA Harmonised Seed Regulations to provide support towards improvement of regional seed and food security.

Bulawayo Bureau THE Common market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) is in a process of setting up a modern railway technology known as the Futran System, an automated system that can take a payload of up to 10 tonnes. According to the regional bloc, initial testing of the system is being done with a […]

Golden Sibanda Senior Business Reporter A majority of Zimbabwean firms’ products and systems are not certified to national or global quality standards, with only 140 out of a possible 5 000 having taken certification standards, according to the country’s national standards body.

Business Reporter Researchers and trade experts have implored the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa to integrate policy research into the institutional structure and budgeting of the Secretariat to make it sustainable.

Conrad Mwanawashe and Michael Tome MORE than 20 business delegates from European and Asian countries are expected in the country in the next two months to seek investment opportunities and to establish networks with local businesses.