Traders give cold shoulder to shipping ban ease offer - The Peninsula Qatar:
It sounded like a good news for an ordinary consumer. Recent media reports of the UAE easing its ban on the shipping of goods between that country and Qatar, barring Qatari-flagged vessels owned by Qatari shipping firms or Qataris should have been a welcome thing; after the unjust blockade imposed on Qatar by the Arab quartet, including the UAE.
But the fact is that the market has received this gesture with lukewarm response. A section of Doha traders who spoke to The Peninsula, said they don’t attribute much to the announcement. “Ban or no ban, business is just usual here”, said a market leader.
Alfred Sequeira, managing director of Gulf International Enterprises, which supplies food and beverage products to Al Meera and Carrefour supermarkets, a number of grocery stores, hotels and restaurants here said the easing of the shipping ban won’t have much significant effect in the already well-adjusted Qatari market.
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