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Specialized sea freight services, including handling of dangerous goods and full container solutions
Organizations
- A global Trade organization with a mission is to represent, lead and serve the airline industry worldwide. Its current membership is representing 93 percent of the scheduled international air traffic.
- FIATA is the largest non-governmental organization in the field of transportation, representing the freight forwarding industry, covering over 40.000 freight forwarding and logistics firms.
- It operates as the administrative organization of Cypriot ports, which on the one hand has a public role incorporating administration, construction and management of port infrastructure and on the other engages in activities of commercial value relating to the coordination and control of port services offered.
- Hermes Airports Ltd assumed management and control of Larnaka International Airport and Pafos International Airport on 12 May 2006, under a 25 year BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) concession agreement with the Republic of Cyprus.
- The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry is a private law Organization which is financially independent, thus its operation is under no influence by the state. The Chamber is funded by its members’ subscription fees and through income generated from the offer of services.
- The Cyprus Shipping Chamber is the trade association of the Shipping Industry in Cyprus. The Members of the Chamber own and/or manage from Cyprus, approximately 2170 vessels exceeding 43 million gross tons, thus making it one of the largest national shipping associations in the world.
- The Cyprus Shipping Association (CSA) was established in1945, to provide a professional forum for the Shipping Agents of Cyprus. The Association became the official body representing the profession of the Shipping Agents in Cyprus. The Members of the Association are the leading and long established Shipping Agencies in the island.
- In Cyprus the Customs and the Value Added Tax (VAT) Service make up the Department of Customs and Excise, which falls under the Ministry of Finance. In general terms Customs is responsible mainly for the imposition and collection of duties and taxes on goods, the safeguarding of the supply chain of goods, the enforcement of restrictions and prohibitions on goods imported, exported or in transit and the protection of the consumers health and safety.