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Haiti: The government has held talks with a Belgian engineering company about plans to build a 2Mt/yr cement plant at Gonaives. The senator for the region, Carl Murat Cantave reported the meeting to the Le Nouvelliste newspaper. Everything is reportedly ready for the launch of the project and the engineering company is set to deliver a schedule of activities shortly. The US$300m cement plant was originally announced in 2015 and the Belgian companies TSE and TPF were lined up to build it.

Dominican Republic/Haiti: Cementos Andino, based in the Dominican Republic, has reported that it will register extra costs of US$44,189/month due to a Haitian ban on cement entering the country overland. Nelson Bello, president of Cementos Andino, explained that maritime transport will increase costs, due to unloading and handling services at ports, among other activities.

Cementos Andino exported 458,818t of cement between 2006 and August 2015, generating US$48.4m. Panama and Haiti were the main destinations.