Forever seemingly ahead of the rest of the regional ‘game’ in its thrust to promote Jamaica, the country’s Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) has sealed a deal with DHL Jamaica that will afford businesses in the country’s productive sector logistical support.
A report in last Monday’s issue of the Jamaica Observer says that the service will apply “whether they (the businesses) are importing or exporting those products.” The offer reportedly comes with what the Observer says is a “special pricing programme exclusively for JMEA members” that will afford them “preferential rates,” DHL Jamaica’s Commercial Manager Michelle Anderson is quoted as saying. The Jamaica DHL official is also quoted as saying that part of the objective of the new partnership is to provide support for the wider ‘family’ of Jamaican companies seeking to export goods. Jamaica has long won both the attention and the admiration of the rest of the region for the success that it has realized in reaching mainstream markets in Europe, North America and elsewhere with its local produce, including a wide range of agro products. The rest of the region has been markedly less successful in this regard.