Photo credit: Papua New Guinea Customs Service The PNG Customs Service and Investment Promotion Authority (IPA) have renewed their partnership to work together in relation to trade, border protection and facilitation, promoting investment including intellectual property enforcement. In order to advance their continuous collaboration, customs chief c...
Photo credit: Post Courier Tourism Promotion Authority will invest a capital of K1 million into creating package tours to boost domestic tourism in the country. A Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) for a Travel Subsidy Partnership between Air Niugini Limited and PNG Tourism Promotion Authority (TPA) has been signed. TPA Chief Executive Officer Eric U...
Following the overland belt failure earlier this year, the Hidden Valley mine has resumed full operation, according to CEO Peter Steenkamp. Following the event, full production of the Morobe project, operated by Harmony Gold Mining Company Ltd., has resumed. This was emphasised by Steenkamp in the company's financial year report that ended on June 3...
The Independent Advisory Group overseeing the review of the Central Banking Act 2000 and Financial Sector Regulation has been given the clearance to go ahead with Phase II of the review. Chairman Robert Igara in a public notice said: “With the successful completion of IAG’s phase I work and decision of the National Executive Council in November 2021, t...
“Foreign Exchange (FX) market inflows gained momentum in June Quarter. FX inflows are expected to seasonally taper in September Quarter, and outstanding FX orders build-up again,” says BSP Group General Manager – Treasury, Rohan George. “As FX flows can be lumpy, we expect there to be periods where outstanding FX orders build up,” said George. Accor...
Barrick Gold Corporation president and CEO Mark Bristow was in Porgera recently to meet with project area landowners and business, church and community representatives. Approximately project-impacted 50 landowners representing areas affected by the Special Mining Lease (SML), Lease for Mining Purpose (LMP), Porgera Landowners Association (PLOA) and Min...
Santos Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Kevin Gallagher said Santos delivered record production, sales revenue and free cash flow in the first half of 2022, demonstrating the strong performance of the base business and strategic benefits of our diverse portfolio, despite a number of major planned shutdowns in the second quarter. Strong pro...
Photo credit: TotalEnergies TotalEnergies, as operator, has announced the decision of the Papua LNG joint venture to launch the first phase of front-end engineering and design (FEED) studies for the Papua LNG project's upstream production facilities. In parallel, studies for the downstream liquefaction facilities are progressing in line with the ove...
Barrick Gold President and Chief Executive Officer Mark Bristow arrived in Port Moresby this afternoon as a part of his regular quarterly visits to all Barrick operations globally. During his 3-day visit to PNG, Mr Bristow will meet with the Prime Minister, James Marape and will visit Porgera to meet with project area landowners and business, church and c...
The price of goods and services have continued to increase since the second quarter of 2021, with Consumer Price Index (CPI) rating closing the first quarter of this year at 6.9 percent – the highest level rating since 2010. To counter this high domestic inflation, the Bank of PNG has tightened the Monetary Policy by increasing the Kina Facility Rate (...
The reopening of the Porgera Gold Mine will be a catalyst for continued growth post-COVID despite it currently being on hold due to a delayed stakeholder sign off on the Porgera Project Commencement Agreement and Shareholder Agreement. BSP Group CEO Robin Fleming in providing his insight in the BSP Pacific Economic and Market Insight Q2, 2022 Report sa...
Prime Minister Hon. James Marape, MP says the completion of Telstra’s acquisition of Digicel Pacific this month is demonstration of international confidence in the Papua New Guinea economy. “The government has worked to liberalise the telecommunication market, and to also even out the playing field so that we attract important investments, and build im...
Photo: Port Moresby 1980 For 50 years Bishops has been an integral part of the ongoing development of Papua New Guinea through the supply and service of products to a multitude of projects, agriculture, mining, forestry, manufacturing, marine, industrial and of the last decade the evolving oil and gas industry. Bishops in many ways, has grown and devel...
Photo: Photo of PIF Leaders Pacific Islands Forum Chair and Host, Fijian Prime Minister Hon. Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, and other members of this esteemed group. I am honored to be here today representing my people of Papua New Guinea at this august forum in its 51st year of existence. On this momentous occassion, let us pause to remember pioneer...
Photo: Prime Ministers Albanese and Marape in Suva. Prime Minister Hon. James Marape met Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday (July 14 2022) at the Grand Pacific Hotel in Suva, prior to the convening of the 51st PIF Leaders Retreat at the PIF Secretariat Headquarters. Being the first meeting since PM Albanese was elected, their ini...
Prime Minister Hon. James Marape had a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Fiji. Hon. Voreqe Josaia Bainimarama on the margins of the 51st Pacific Islands Forum in Suva, Fiji. PM Bainimarama thanked PM Minister Marape for making time to attend the PIF saying it showed his commitment and cause to the wider regional family. PM...
Photo credit: A Pacific Trade Invest survey for Pacific Island exporters has revealed that despite over half of all responding businesses reporting a decline in export orders over the past 12 months, respondents are confident the future holds promise with two out of three businesses expecting an increase in export orders over the next 12 months. The...
PAPUA New Guinea’s economy has weathered the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic well despite many challenges, according to Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey. Ling-Stuckey said according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), “PNG economy is expected to grow from K79.4 billion in 2018 to K109.3 billion in 2022”. “The increase over the last two years of K23....
Photo credit: Fabien Forget, ISSF Papua New Guinea has told the United States – the biggest importer of fresh Pacific tuna – that it wants to get away from the export of raw tuna and now move into downstream processing. Prime Minister James Marape said he made this known to US vice -president Kamala Harris at the 51st Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) sum...
Appreciating farming as a sustainable and viable business practice is the message from PNG Agriculture Company’s PNG Agbook who are partners with the UNCDF in the EU Funded Joint STREIT PNG Programme. PNG Agbook working with the PNG Cocoa Board, organized two sets of trainings for rural farmers in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. A total of 23 far...
Telstra, Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company, today announced it has officially acquired Digicel Pacific in partnership with the Australian Government. Telstra will continue to invest in and operate the business across its six South Pacific markets – Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Nauru, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu. Oliver Camplin-Warne...
Local landowners from the Yandera Copper Project in Madang have stressed their concerns and objections to the upcoming renewal of its project exploration license EL 1335. Most landowners are adamant to have the renewal refused by any incoming Minister for Mining, as they want an innovative developer to come into the project that can do actual work on t...
Photo credit: Loop PNG - Clarence Hoot The Investment Promotion Authority will be reviewing its Strategic Plan 2021-2023 as the plan is halfway into its implementation timeframe. Investment Promotion Authority managing director Clarence Hoot in IPA’s fifth edition of Opportunity newsletter, said IPA is reviewing the plan to assess how much of it h...
Photo: Simberi’s rope conveyor (Ropecon), part of the mine’s clean energy campaign, delivers ore to the process plant three-kilometres downhill from the pit. [Photo by Chamber of Mines and Petroleum] St Barbara is expecting its sulphide expansion project at the Simberi operation in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea to proceed either under its name or a dif...
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