July 5 (SeeNews) - Bosnia's biggest bakery company Klas said on Thursday that a group of Bosnian companies have launched the country's first ever exports of food and drink to Pakistan.
"Today from Sarajevo to Pakistan left the first consignment of food and drink of Klas, [brewery] Sarajevska Pivara and [food-and-juice firm] Vegafriut. This is also the first exports of food products from Bosnia to the Pakistani market," Klas said in a statement. It provided no further details.
Bosnian investment group MIMS has arranged the exports. It will also import citrus fruit and juice concentrates from Pakistan.
No company officials were immediately available to comment.
"With this move of the MIMS group, Bosnia's food industry will step for the first time into a country of around 160 million population," said Bosnia's Ambassador to Pakistan Damir Dzanko.
Bosnia, divided into a Muslim-Croat Federation and a Serb Republic, had a foreign trade gap of 2.87 billion marka ($1.95 billion/1.46 billion euro) through May.
(1 euro = 1.95583 Bosnian marka)