Yangon International Airport's authorities are planning to allow privatization of import cargo services, according to the release.
The Public Service Capacity Assessment
Committee made the decision to privatize the services after they have
inspected the airport.
Currently, the custom department is in charge of the import services at airport.
If the import cargo services are in the
hand of a private company, the process will be faster, reports say. The
Ministry of Finance and Revenue and Ministry of Transport are
negotiating the making of privatization for the import services.
At present, Myanmar Airways
International (MAI), Myanmar International Freight Forwarders’
Association (MIFFA) and Minglardon Cargo Services (MCS) have applied for
the services. Among them, MCS has been already permitted for external
cargo services. The MCS is owned by Tayza, a business tycoon, who owns
Htoo Groups.
The MCS is in a better position to
receive the permit for cargo services because of the contract agreed by
former Minister of Transport, Thein Swe, according to a source.
“The respective department called
representatives from other two companies and told about the contract. In
the contract signed by the former minister of transport, the former
government had agreed to give permission to make import, export
warehouse services to MCS alone. We are amazed that they have to follow
the contract signed by the former minister in this new government era.
When the government calls the tender, they should have transparency and
equal rights for every businessman,” a representative from one of the
other two companies who applied for the permit told Daily Eleven on
condition of anonymity.
source: Eleven Myanmar
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