Live sheep exporters get longer 'grace' period for sub-standard ships
- Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Al Shuwaikh
is one of the Kuwait Livestock Transport and Trading ships that has its standards grandfathered.Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA
The government has extended by a year the time it is giving exporters with old ships to continue with sub-standard conditions for sheep carried to the Middle East.
Exporters were to be provided with a grace...
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