Caribbean Cement plans to restart exports next year

Jamaica's Caribbean Cement Co Ltd aims to restart exports next year following the completion of its expansion, according to the Jamaica Gleaner. The company stopped exports last year to focus on the project which is expected to be completed in 2018.

"I would love to restart exports to markets such as Bahamas, Bermuda, Grenada and the Caribbean," said Peter Donkersloot Ponce, general manager, Caribbean Cement.

"While we do our maintenance plan, we need to focus on our local market because when there is maintenance, there is downtime for the equipment. In order to have that downtime, we stopped exports," said Mr Donkersloot. "Next year we will start exporting again," he said.

The company expects to increase production to 1.2Mta by year-end.