Develop shipping hub in Trinidad and Tobago – CWA participant suggests

The Port Manager of the Antigua Port, Darwin Telemaque on Tuesday recommended that Trinidad become a regional shipping hub to help bring down transportation costs and reduce reliance on Miami.

“If you start thinking about what’s Miami… Trinidad has more potential than Miami because they make things. Miami does nothing. They just receive things and distribute so we have an opportunity in our own back-yard to build from something that can grow into something great but we remain insular,” he told a seminar on Agricultural Trade and Transport at the Caribbean Week of Agriculture being held in the Cayman Islands.

Telemaque argued that that oil-producing nation has “all of the natural capabilities” such as consolidators, distributors and a strong industrial base.

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