Uganda: Anxiety As Flights Stall At Airports

Kampala/Entebbe — The grounding of flights destined to Europe at Entebbe airport due to drifting ash ejected from a volcano in Iceland has caused anxiety among foreign travellers and a major loss to the local importers and exporters.

Exporters of fish and flowers are among the most affected by the flight stall that enters its fifth day today, Daily Monitor has learnt. An administrator with Rosebud, a flower exporting firm, Mr Dimpo Mehta, said they had resorted to using the more expensive road transport to get their products to the market. "We have lost so much trying to use the road. The losses are huge and we are still counting," Mr Mehta said on phone. He said when the airspace was safe, the firm transported between 300,000 to 350,000 flower stems daily--but this has decreased significantly in the past four days.

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