Carrasco operator benefits from traffic surge

13-Feb-2004

URUGUAY. Duty Free Uruguay, the new duty-free operator at Montevideo Carrasco airport, has reported an encouraging first month of operations as tourist traffic to Uruguay improves.

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According to Duty Free Uruguay ceo Martín Eurnekian, sales are already ?considerably ahead of last year?.

Eurnekian told DFNI: ?Since we started the operation at the beginning of January, we

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