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High-level meeting held on regional ferry - Stabroek News

A high-level meeting was held in Trinidad on Thursday on the proposed regional ferry and all sides agreed on a two-month period for completion of pre-clearance procedures for immigration, customs, and plant quarantine and to make the ferry service a reality as soon as possible.

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