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An opportunity has arisen to invest in Port Lafito. This multi-purpose port and terminal is located in the Lafiteau area in Haiti, approximately 20 kilometers north of Port-au-Prince. The port is part of a larger development covering 300 hectares of privately owned land and comprising of a free zone, integrated power plant, and industrial park.
The port will handle containerized and loose-bulk cargo under an operating license granted by Haiti’s National Port Authority. It is designed to improve overall cost-of-goods by providing pier-to-storage operations at competitive costs, and savings in variable costs such as ocean transportation, spillage/leakage, customs duties, in-land transportation, warehousing and security. These services are offered in a highly controlled environment which provides the flexibility to meet its clients’ growth and handling requirement's well into the future.
Port Lafito commenced operations of an off-dock dry terminal in the 4th quarter of 2014. Phase 1 of Port Lafito’s main port and terminal was completed and commenced operations in November 2015. Phase 2 of Port Lafito will expand the main port and terminal from 250,000 in annual container capacity to over 1,000,0000. The terminal will be 130,000 square meters and provide 450 meters of berth (900 in phase 2) for offloading and loading operations. State of the art Liebherr cranes, new terminal container handlers, vessel mooring/unmooring services and refrigerated container assistance will serve ships unloading cargo.
Port Lafito’s location connects it to direct weekly calls by major international carriers both to and from regional worldwide hubs and U.S. ports, providing easy access to Central and South American destinations and the rest of the world. Port Lafito will be able to service clients requiring break bulk port facilities making this a unique advantage in the trade. Multiple shipping lines have already been signed up to deliver cargo to the port. All of the shipping lines that currently call on Haiti, as well as new ones that desire to enter the Haitian market, are already in talks with Port Lafito. Clients will include major relief agencies as well as renowned institutions.
Port Lafito S.A. is a subsidiary of GB Group, one of the leading private industrial groups in the Caribbean, and the most diversified industrial and commercial group based in Haiti. GB Group has invested significant amounts of their own capital in the project, alongside the Government of Haiti and major financial institutions such as International Finance Corporation (a World Bank Group), Capital Bank, FDI – Industrial Development Fund, FMO – Entrepreneurial Development Bank, NASSA – Nationale D’ Assurance S.A. and Banque Nationale de Credit (BNC). This is an opportunity to invest in Port Lafito Bahamas, Ltd, a Bahamian Corporation, which was formed to acquire, indirectly, a preferred equity interest in Port Lafito, S.A.
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