Nathan to Launch Tradeshow in Libya

Vanessa VanderZanden -- Tradeshow Week, 6/14/2004

PWN Exhibicon Intl. will launch a new exhibition in Libya next January.

Thanks to the U.S. government's recent lifting of trade and travel restrictions to the country, PWN Exhibicon Intl.'s U.S. Trade and Industrial Exhibition will take place in Tripoli, Libya Jan. 11–15, 2005.

Peter Nathan, president of PWN, said the tradeshow will be held at the 34,000 square meter Tripoli Intl. Fair Grounds and is expected to attract roughly 250 American exhibitors. Libya currently imports products from a variety of Asian and European countries but, Nathan said, is most interested in purchasing U.S. equipment and materials for its oil and gas, construction, farming, medical and telecommunications industries

Nathan said he will travel to Libya later this month for talks with the members of various Libyan ministries and private organizations. His PWN Exhibicon Intl. organized the first U.S. Food & Agribusiness Exhibition in Cuba in September 2002.

Trade restrictions were lifted when Libya's government agreed to dismantle nuclear weapons.