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Papua New Guinea retailers shift focus in response to tight market

11 Mar 2025 by Nadav Shemer Shlezinger 2 Comments

Retail sales have flattened in Papua New Guinea in the past year. As a result, major retailers are shifting their focus to meet changing customer expectations, as CEOs reveal to Business Advantage PNG.
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Building for the future: Steamships MD on developments across Papua New Guinea

11 Mar 2025 by Business Advantage PNG 1 Comment

Chris Daniells became the managing director of Steamships Trading Company in July 2024. In this interview with Business Advantage PNG, he shares progress on multiple Port Moresby projects and explains why Steamships is also bullish on Mount Hagen.
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BSP’s CEO on plans to modernise Papua New Guinea’s largest bank [video]

11 Mar 2025 by Business Advantage PNG 2 Comments

Mark Robinson, Chief Executive Officer of BSP Financial Group, sat down recently for a wide-ranging interview with Business Advantage PNG, in which he shared the bank's digital transformation plans and its efforts to attract more Papua New Guineans to formal banking.
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How Steamships Logistics is preparing for PNG’s next wave of resources projects [video]

27 Feb 2025 by Business Advantage PNG Leave a Comment

Nick Fisher, Chief Executive Officer of Steamships Logistics, tells Business Advantage PNG how his firm is preparing for a Papua LNG final investment decision, and takes us inside plans to ensure Papua New Guinea has enough qualified seafarers to support the growth of the shipping sector.
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ICTSI sees big increase in efficiency at Papua New Guinea’s international ports

24 Feb 2025 by Paul Chai Leave a Comment

Investments in equipment and processes at Papua New Guinea’s Lae and Motukea international container terminals have delivered results. Robert Maxwell, Chief Executive Officer, ICTSI South Pacific, tells Business Advantage PNG about the changes.
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New export niche delivers record revenues for PNG Forest Products

21 Feb 2025 by Paul Chai Leave a Comment

PNGFP has been producing engineered wood products in Papua New Guinea for more than 70 years, but it recently discovered a new avenue for growth, as Managing Director Tony Honey tells Business Advantage PNG.
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Twinza begins preparations for Pasca A final investment decision

11 Feb 2025 by Nadav Shemer Shlezinger Leave a Comment

Twinza and the PNG Government signed the Gas Agreement for Pasca A last December. In this exclusive interview, Twinza's Stephen Quantrill explains why he believes his firm now has enough certainty to prepare for FID.
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Boom times for Port Moresby conferences and events spaces

10 Feb 2025 by Paul Chai 1 Comment

Papua New Guinea’s Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE) sector has grown rapidly over the past few years, with venues competing for business with upgrades, expansions and value adds. Business Advantage PNG looks at the current MICE landscape in the capital.
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Greylisting: what it could mean for Papua New Guinea’s banks and their customers

30 Jan 2025 by Andrew Wilkins Leave a Comment

Late in 2024, a 226-page report by the global Financial Action Task Force was quietly published online that may, according to the experts, have a significant impact on Papua New Guinea's banking and finance system. Business Advantage PNG takes a closer look.
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St Barbara ‘accelerates’ plans to extend Simberi mine life to 2036

28 Jan 2025 by Nadav Shemer Shlezinger Leave a Comment

The operator of PNG's Simberi gold mine is aiming to extend the mine’s life by at least 10 years and triple annual production. In an exclusive interview with Business Advantage PNG, St Barbara’s CEO Andrew Strelein outlines how his company is expediting these plans, including a deal to sell a minority share in the mine to Kumul Minerals.
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From the desk of the Innovation PNG Conference Program Director
Papua New Guinea can become an innovation nation. Innovation, simply put, is the solving of problems by using new ideas, methods and tools. PNG has a great example from its own history. Some 9000 years ago in the Waghi Valley, near what is now Mt Hagen, people first decided to drain and divert water in […]
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Industry sectors

Papua New Guinea retailers shift focus in response to tight market

Building for the future: Steamships MD on developments across Papua New Guinea

BSP’s CEO on plans to modernise Papua New Guinea’s largest bank [video]

How Steamships Logistics is preparing for PNG’s next wave of resources projects [video]

ICTSI sees big increase in efficiency at Papua New Guinea’s international ports

New export niche delivers record revenues for PNG Forest Products

Twinza begins preparations for Pasca A final investment decision

Boom times for Port Moresby conferences and events spaces

Greylisting: what it could mean for Papua New Guinea’s banks and their customers

St Barbara ‘accelerates’ plans to extend Simberi mine life to 2036

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