Santo Domingo, RD.
President Luis Abinader considered on Tuesday that the project to rehabilitate and expand the Port of Manzanillo is vital to positioning the Dominican Republic at the highest levels of competitiveness in the entire region.
It is, he stressed, a macro project that has a significant investment for its implementation by the Inter-American Development Bank, and will generate hundreds of direct and indirect jobs.
Emphasizing that it is a major transformation that brings with it positive changes for the country, he stressed that its construction will boost the local economy as well as maritime trade activity to and from the Dominican Republic.
“It’s a commitment to an interconnected, global world that moves goods and provides services to all parts of the planet,” President Abinader said at a working meeting with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The president thanked the American specialists for their help, advice and contributions in the implementation of this goal, which is so important for the country of the future that it is building in its management.
“I am honored to receive you today to open a dialogue, in which I invite all of you to actively participate, offering your views and all that can be enriching,” the president said in giving. Welcome to the engineers of the United States Navy.
He stated that the Dominican Republic is a country full of opportunities and spaces for the creation, innovation and development of import and export trade.
“A country that is responsibly preparing to face a future of development, of equal opportunities, and in which the government is making a huge investment effort to achieve the modernization of our essential infrastructure,” he indicated.
In addition to President Abinader, they spoke at the event, the U.S. Business Officer in the country Robert W. Thomas, who valued the importance of the work and relied on the engineers of the Army of his country.
Also speaking were the Ministers of Public Works, Deligne Asención; Energy and Mines, Antonio Almonte; Also present was the Minister of the Presidency, Lisandro Macarrulla, who coordinates, the ministry coordinates these works.
Also present were Orlando Environment Minister Jorge Mera; the director of the Port Authority, Jean Luis Rodríguez and the director of the Directorate of Public-Private Alliances, Sigmund Freund.