Port of Spain, Trinidad – A forum to examine the challenges to global logistics and shipping related to Caribbean trade and to propose solutions to these challenges will form part of the Annual Trade and Investment Convention (TIC) to be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad from June 15-18, 2011.
The forum, a collateral event of the TIC, is being hosted by Laparkan Trading Limited in conjunction with VENSECAR Internacional/DHL Air Cargo and is designed to address the pressing issues leading business executives from the Caribbean region and further afield want addressed in light of the recent global economic crisis. Moreover, the forum will present strategies to enhance the efficiencies in the movement of air and ocean cargo to and from Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean region.
The forum will be held on Thursday, June 16, 2011 from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Siparia Room at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. “Given changes in the global trading arrangements between the Caribbean and the world, this event will offer solutions for executives interested in enhancing the efficiency of the movement, via air and ocean, of imports and exports into and out of the Caribbean region. Participation is open to registered and non-registered participants to the TIC 2011,” says James Devers, Senior Vice President for Caribbean Regional Operations at Laparkan, who will be among the main presenters at the forum.
Devers has pointed out that efficient and cost effective logistics are key to the success of trade and development especially for developing nations such as those in the CARICOM region and “it is against this backdrop that we at Laparkan are hosting this forum. Potential investors in Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean region as a whole certainly take into account the availability and efficiency of logistics operations as they make a decision whether to invest.”
He said Laparkan has been a major provider of ocean, air and related cargo services to the Caribbean for some 28 years and is cognizant of the importance of these services to the future development of the nations of the Caribbean, particularly as the world recovers from the recent economic crisis and as new trade and investment agreements and patterns emerge.
