Antigua and Barbuda is sending a trade mission to Cuba that Trade, Commerce and Industry Minister, Paul Chet Greene, has described as a strategic move given the imminent lifting of the decades-old United States trade embargo.
“We need to get in on the ground in Cuba as early as possible as the potential for business opportunities is significant” he said of the June 20 to July 1 mission.
Greene said that new shipping lanes will soon open into Cuba making the island of 11 million people accessible to products from Antigua and Barbuda and other countries.
He said on a weekly basis, a number of containers leave here empty for the United States and “we could arrange for these containers to take goods destined for Cuban back to Miami, then it’s a quick trans-shipment to Havana.
