In this year will be inaugurated 14 fishing ports in the country, reported the executive director of the Dominican Port Authority (Apordom), Jean Louis Rodriguez.
He explained that by 2023 another 20 fishing ports will be developed throughout the country’s coastline.
“In the next few days we will be taking a peck at Sánchez, which is one of the most anticipated fishing docks in the country,” he said.
The official was interviewed prior to starting the renovation work on the National Institute of Port and Logistics Training (INPLOG) in the Colonial City, which will start operating within four months.
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The official said that the ports represent the 83% of everything you enter and leaves the country and, therefore, play an important role in the Dominican economy.
“Taking this project to this level has been possible thanks to an austere and intelligent management of financial resources, which has allowed us to allocate an investment of more than RD$10 million pesos in the first stage, which includes: development and structure institute legal, hiring of administrative personnel, hiring of local and international consultants for the development of the courses”, among others, affirmed Jean Luis Rodríguez.
The country’s ports are working regularly and operations have remained as they were in the best of times, he considered.
He stressed that it is only possible with education and training to guarantee the true development of the sector.
He expressed that Apordom is pushing in the right direction so that the country becomes a regional logistics hub.
This transformation process will begin with the intervention of the first and third floors of the building, located in the Jose Gabriel Garcia StreetNumber 6 in the Colonial Zone, where the reception area, administrative offices, four classrooms, a multipurpose room, a technological library equipped with computers and books, as well as a reading area, work tables and bathrooms.
