President Irfaan Ali and his contingent continued in their quest yesterday to promote business opportunities and investment in Guyana while attending EXPO 2020 in Dubai with discussions of creating a logistics hub here for the UAE.
According to an Office of the President release yesterday, Ali visited Abu Dhabi Ports’ ultra-modern temperature-controlled vaccine storage warehouse facility which is also home to the Hope Consortium at the Khalifa Industrial Zone (KIZAD) and the Khalifa Port. Whilst there he stated that Guyana was desirous of building a “strong partnership” with Abu Dhabi Ports to create a new logistics hub for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that will connect business opportunities in South America, Central America, the Caribbean, North America and West Africa.
The release added that the CEO of Abu Dhabi Ports and owner, operator, developer and regulator of Abu Dhabi’s maritime infrastructure and KIZAD, Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi, in response said that his company is very serious about investing in Guyana. “Thank you for that trust. We are serious about Guyana, and I promise you we passed the time of thinking, now we are in the implementation stage. So what you will see today is the capability of Abu Dhabi Ports.”