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Beers, Wines and Spirits

While Mr Munsamy believes the years our beers, wines and spirits as being export. For example, if a vessel
sector is getting back to growth, Danny sales have been somewhat in decline. was going from Rotterdam to the UK, it

Nossent, Director of Ship Supply at More and more shipping companies would no longer be allowed to buy duty-
Pentrade Duty Free Wholesaler based have started to become more strictfree anymore because it is within the EU.

in the port of Rotterdam, is concerned in regards to liquor on their ships soI think as a sector we have to make sure

about the growing legislation towards it is becoming increasingly hard to that will not happen.
bonded stores on cargo vessels.keep those revenue sales up. luckily “I have seen sales in beers, wines

Pentrade has been a duty-free our ship supply outside of Europe is and spirits go down every year for the
wholesaler since 1979 and as wellexplanding, particularly the sales in past few years now. I’m not entirely

as beers, wines and spirits, supplies beers and spirits. Besides that we are sure why our ship supply trade is up
products from home and personal care also expanding our sales in other duty- but I think there’s two factors that have

to cosmetics, and from ambient foods to free channels, such as military camps, contributed. The US dollar is quite
tobacco. It operates with its own bonded UN organisations, border shopsstrong at the moment so that has helped

warehouses and transport facilities, so it and various diplomatic communities us a little bit. I also think we are coming
can react quickly and lexibly to special abroad, which contributed to the fact out of the economic crisis and that has

requests or urgent orders.that out toal sales in beers, wines and helped as well. I don’t think that ships

Through ship chandlers Pentrade spirits, is uphave more money to spend though, we
supplies to cargo vessels, cruise liners “We have had to start supplying are talking about crews and they are

and other ocean going vessels. Over other products such as confectionery, given a certain allowance. I don’t deal
the years the company has extended its food and non-food items to make updirectly with the ships as we do our

business into other duty-free markets the revenue. These products are selling business through ship chandlers but I
such as airlines, military camps, UN really well and I think in the future this is heard that they get eight or nine dollars

organisations, border shops and various where the sales are going to go.a day, which really isn’t a lot.”
diplomatic communities abroad.“If you look at what’s happening in Mr nossent added: “For Pentrade as

Mr Nossent said: “Our ship supply Europe in regards to the ship supply I am a whole things are actually quite good
revenue is actually up compared to this a little bit concerned. We have to make and I hope that next year we can keep up

time last year, but for the past severalsure that that ship supply is consideredthe momentum.” u