Khartoum allocates Juba special space at port for oil exports

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The Sudan Government has allocated special space at Port Sudan for South Sudan exports and imports, an official has said.

South Sudan is a deadlocked country and depends on Sudan to export its oil and import goods.

The two Sudans have agreed after negotiations to continue the Southern oil flow through the Khartoum territories through Port Sudan on the Red sea.

Sudanese Commerce Minister Osman Omer Al-Sharif on Friday announced that the Khartoum government would allocate a space at Port Sudan for South Sudan. However, he did not give more details on the arrangement.

After a visit to some border crossing points between the two states, Mr Al-Sharif has also declared that border-crossing points for trade between Sudan and South Sudan will be opened by the end of the year.

“The Sudanese Government has set up formal customs points to ease the movement of goods and prevent double taxation” Mr Al-Sharif told journalists in Khartoum.

The presidents of the two countries have called for the implementation of the trade protocol signed between the two governments in Addis Ababa.

According to the oil agreement signed between the two countries on September 2012 in Addis Ababa, South Sudan pays $23 dollar per barrel to Sudan for using the Sudanese oil infrastructure and port.

Sudan has lost its oil revenues after the independence of South Sudan in July 2011.

Many issues are still pending between the two countries, such as the dispute over Abyei area, the border demarcation, Sudan external debts and the mutual status of the citizens in the two countries.