Recently released information sourced to RAMPS logistics disclosed that 40,000 coconuts have recently been shipped to the United States by Arapaima Logistics, the recently created partnership between the Guyanese company Roraima Airways, and RAMPS Logistics, a company with origins in Trinidad and Tobago.
The release stated that the shipment of coconuts had originated in the Pomeroon area and that it represented the latest project “targeted towards boosting the agriculture sector in Guyana.” It further said that this initiative “will facilitate many more opportunities for Guyanese farmers and producers by expanding their access to international supply chains and markets.”
Addressing the wider aim of the Arapaima Logistics partnership, the company is quoted as saying that it seeks “to empower farmers to have guaranteed markets for their products.”
The company disclosed that its initiative to accelerate the movement of agriculture in the hemisphere will, in the coming month, embrace greater volumes of Caribbean and South American produce including coconuts, pineapples, peppers, pumpkins, plantains, yams and eddoes.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ramps Logistics, Shaun Rampersad, told the News Room on Tuesday that the company worked alongside farmers in Region Two (Pomeroon- Supenaam) to get the coconuts for export. The coconuts were processed and packaged at the Guyana Marketing Corporation’s Central Packaging facility from where they were shipped for delivery across the Eastern Seaboard.
“Over the next few months, we will be doing it for coconuts, pineapples, peppers, pumpkins, plantains, yams and eddoes,” Rampersad announced. Going forward, he said that the company will be seeking to execute contracts with local farmers for approximately six months out of every year in order to guarantee a consistent supply of produce. Rampersaud is quoted as saying that Arapaima has “fixed foreign markets interested in buying Guyanese produce.”
