TTMA launches second trade mission

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) will un­der­take its sec­ond Trade Mis­sion on the Seas from Feb­ru­ary 28 to March 10, led by CEO Dr Mahin­dra Ramdeen.

The mis­sion will in­clude 15 Trinidad and To­ba­go com­pa­nies from the food and bev­er­age, pa­per and pack­ag­ing, con­struc­tion, chem­i­cals and ser­vices sec­tors. Par­tic­i­pat­ing com­pa­nies will en­gage in busi­ness-to-busi­ness meet­ings across four re­gion­al mar­kets.

Meet­ings are sched­uled in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, Saint Lu­cia, Puer­to Ri­co and Sint Maarten. The meet­ings form part of a sev­en-des­ti­na­tion cruise itin­er­ary.

CEO Dr Mahin­dra Ramdeen said the Trade Mis­sion on the Seas mod­el pro­vides a plat­form for ex­porters, in­clud­ing small and medi­um-sized en­ter­pris­es, to ac­cess mul­ti­ple mar­kets with­in a sin­gle mis­sion. He said par­tic­i­pants will ben­e­fit from co­or­di­nat­ed meet­ings and in­sti­tu­tion­al sup­port.

CEO Dr Mahin­dra Ramdeen said the mis­sion fol­lows the in­au­gur­al trade mis­sion on the seas. He said the as­so­ci­a­tion re­mains fo­cused on as­sist­ing mem­ber com­pa­nies to se­cure com­mer­cial out­comes.

CEO Dr Mahin­dra Ramdeen said the TTMA will un­der­take an ex­tra-re­gion­al mis­sion to In­dia in April to ad­vance the ex­port agen­da for mem­bers.

The TTMA said it con­tin­ues to sup­port ex­port di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion and re­gion­al eco­nom­ic in­te­gra­tion.