CCC mission to South Africa paves way for trade expansion

TRADE FAIR: The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) Trade Fair Unit concluded its programme of activities for 2006 exploring some untapped and emerging markets such as Myanmar, Vietnam and the final mission to South Africa.

All these missions focused not only on promotion of trade, investments and joint ventures, but they also served as fact finding missions.

The nine member delegation led by Chief Operating OPfficer, CIC Group Samantha Ranatunga and assisted by Senior Assistant Secretary General, Puvi Domingopillai, visited Durban and Johannesburg recently.

They were accompanied by seven leading organisations comprising Managing Director, CIC Fertilizers (Pvt) Ltd., K. B. Kotagama, General Manager, International Trade Development, Ruwan Senanayake, Freight Links International (Pte) Ltd., Nisal Weerasekera, Manager, Imperial Teas (Pvt) Ltd., Commercial Manager, Jayes Trading Company, Karthik Ramachandran, Chairman, Laugfs Holdings Ltd., W. K. M. Wegapitiya, Managing Director, N M K Group of Companies N. M. Manjula and General Manager (Commerce), Samson Rubber Industries (Pvt) Ltd. D. D. Abeythilake.

Though the delegation was targeting at the South African market, they also had the opportunity of meeting with the Dubai business community through the courtesy of the President of the Sri Lanka Business Council in Dubai. They also met officials of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce.