Libyan Customs Authority discusses tightening controls on goods to protect food and health security
Dec 9 Sami Zaptia

Libyan Customs Authority discusses tightening controls on goods to protect food and health security

Libya’s Customs Authority announced yesterday that it held an expanded meeting at its Tripoli headquarters dedicated to discussing enhanced controls o...

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Minister of Economy prohibits import of furniture from France because of bedbugs spread
Oct 21 Sami Zaptia

Minister of Economy prohibits import of furniture from France because of bedbugs spread

The Media Spokesman for the Ministry of Economy and Trade, Fawzi Wadi, told Libya Herald in an exclusive interview, that Mohamed Hwej, the Tripoli bas...

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Food security: Libya happy to allow the re-export of imported goods
Oct 2 Sami Zaptia

Food security: Libya happy to allow the re-export of imported goods

Libyan authorities are happy to allow imported goods to be re-exported from its market. The revelation was announced last Thursday by the Customs Auth...

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Customs Authority and Brazil’s Seara discuss Libyan regulations regarding frozen meat imports
May 26 Sami Zaptia

Customs Authority and Brazil’s Seara discuss Libyan regulations regarding frozen meat imports

By Sami Zaptia.London, 26 May 2021:Libya’s Customs Authority reported yesterday that it had met a delegation from Seara International, a Brazilian com...

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Apr 9 Callum Paton

Ras Jedir border crossing reopens

By Ashraf Abdul Wahab.Tripoli, 9 April 2014:The Ras Jedir border crossing with Tunisia is now open to normal traffic after discussions brought to an e...

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Benghazi port officials accuse SSC of “wasting public money” following seizure of Iranian vessel suspected of carrying smuggled oil
Dec 10 George Grant

Benghazi port officials accuse SSC of “wasting public money” following seizure of Iranian vessel suspected of carrying smuggled oil

By Ashraf Abdul Wahab.Tripoli, 10 December:Benghazi port officials have reacted badly to the seizure of an Iranian vessel suspected of holding more th...

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Egypt's Libyan trade man talks about his job
Nov 1 Nigel Ash

Egypt's Libyan trade man talks about his job

By Ashraf Abdul WahabNasser Ibrahim, Egypt's trade man in Libya in his Tripoli officeTripoli, 1 November:Egypt’s trade tsar in Libya, Nasser Ibrahim,...

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Sep 4 Al Russell

Benghazi inspection staff strike over security concerns

Tripoli, 4 September:Staff charged with inspecting imported produce at the Food and Medicine Control Department in Benghazi held a protest on Sunday,...

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May 13 George Grant

Minister of Justice and Attorney-General in Egypt for official talks

Cairo, 13 May:The Libyan Minster of Justice, Ehmida Ashour and the Libyan Attorney-General, Abdel-Aziz Abdel-Hamid, arrived in Cairo on Sunday on an o...

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May 13 Michel Cousins

Egypt bans containers for Libya

Tripoli, 13 May:Egypt has announced that all containers transshipped to Libya through Egypt will be banned unless they are for the Libyan government.T...

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