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As readers will no doubt be aware, following the loosening of sanctions, Myanmar is opening up to the outside world and the result that the import/export trade is booming (+7% growth in 2016-2020).

As readers may recall from the attached article, Cameroon’s technical surveyors are obliged to calculate their charges in accordance with an official scale based on quantum of losses rather than an hourly rate or fixed amount.

For vessels calling in Marseille Fos, you will find herewith the 2015 scale of port dues.

The Ebola outbreak has highlighted the need for clearly-worded generic Voyage and Time Charter Party Clauses which would be applicable both to Ebola and to any other epidemic.

Budd’s Equatorial Guinea offices report on the latest anti-Ebola measures.

This document updates and supplements the information provided in our 22 September bulletin.

According to our Benin office, the port of Cotonou has now introduced measures aimed at preventing the Ebola virus from entering the country.

Following Sierra-Leone’s 3 day Ebola curfew from 19-21 September, our local office has been confirmed that the port of Freetown duly re-opened for business as planned.

According to Budd’s Nouakchott representative, no vessels which have recently been in a country affected by Ebola are being allowed to either enter Mauritanian ports or anchor in the roads although we are not aware of any official circular to this effect.

Following the government’s announcement that, apart from the emergency services, everyone in Sierra Leone will be obliged to stay in their homes for three days from 19 to 21 September 2014, Budd’s local office has confirmed that the ports will be closed on these dates.