Singapore keen to work with Australia on quarantine-free travel

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Singapore is keen to work with Australia, New Zealand and Japan on quarantine-free travel, Transport Minister S. Iswaran said.

“Certainly, Australia is a very important partner country for us. And there’s a great deal of connectivity between Australia and Singapore, and through Singapore to other parts of the world as well,” Iswaran said in an interview with Bloomberg Television Monday. “So we are quite keen to work with Australia, with New Zealand, with Japan and many other countries in the region, in terms of how we can move forward in this regard.

While every country is navigating its own domestic situation, what Singapore intends to do is “maintain the conversation and the discussion, because we are ready, we have a template of sorts in the VTLs we have established and will be prepared to work with our partners, including in Australia, to see how we can implement some of these as part of an initial set of moves,” Iswaran said on Monday.

Shares in Singapore Airlines jumped as much as 9.6% Monday while stock in SATS Ltd., which provides airline catering and ground-handling services, rose 6.5%. Iswaran said on Monday that Singapore was still open to working on a vaccinated travel lane with Hong Kong, as he underscored the importance of inter-regional connectivity.

 

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