Montevideo’s IATA CEIV ‘learning experience’

Uruguay’s Montevideo Free Airport has achieved IATA’s CEIV Pharma Certification. The airport’s cargo operation has set itself up to resemble a third party logistics provider (3PL) offering a tax-exemption regime, multimodal transport, and primary and secondary packaging, all located within the airport free zone. MVD Free Airport recently inaugurated the first module of its temperature […]

Montevideo aims to be the gateway to South America

With a relatively small internal market, Uruguay has set its stall out to become a gateway to the whole of South America, writes Neil Madden. Sandwiched between Brazil and Argentina, Uruguay has introduced an attractive tax, legal and administrative framework to transform the country into a competitive point of entry for global shippers. The results […]