{"id":451,"date":"2019-03-18T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2019\/03\/18\/tax-hike-sparks-dp-world-berbera-protest\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:11:33","slug":"tax-hike-sparks-dp-world-berbera-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2019\/03\/18\/tax-hike-sparks-dp-world-berbera-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax hike sparks DP World Berbera protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DP World, which won its controversial 30-year operating agreement at Somaliland\u2019s Port of Berbera in 2016, is able to increase tariffs on a biannual basis in consultation with the government &#8211; ensuring the tariff is competitive with neighbouring countries, but local importers have ceased payments and left goods stranded at the port, stated the <em>Somaliland Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Somaliland minister of commerce and investment Mahmud Hasan Sa&#8217;ad has declared support for the port operator\u2019s tax hike and issued a warning to businesses withholding payment that they must pay their outstanding dues and pick up the goods or risk paying extra fees on account of the delays.<\/p>\n<p>DP World has the power to set, amend, levy, collect and recover tariffs of the users of the port, as per its 65% stake in a joint venture agreement to manage and develop the US$442m multipurpose port project with the government of Somaliland.<\/p>\n<p>However in March 2018, the deal, which comes with an automatic 10-year extension, was declared \u201cnon-existent, null and void\u201d by the Federal Government of Somalia, which doesn\u2019t recognise Somaliland\u2019s 1991 declaration of autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>The chairperson of Somaliland Chamber of Commerce plans to take up the matter with the president to discuss the grievances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operations at DP World Berbera have been hit by delays for the fifth consecutive day as local businesses protest an increase in goods and services tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}