The Tribune

China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) will tonight hold a Town Meeting to inform residents of its plans as it prepared to start construction on North Abaco’s new $39 million port.

CHEC’s Americas Division and the Government will hosting the meeting at the Faith Walk Church of God in Coopers Town at 7 pm.

“We invite everyone in Abaco to come out to hear what we have to say about the project,” said Felix Chang, principal of CHEC Bahamas. “I am looking forward to a very engaging Town Hall meeting.”

Committed to promoting economic growth and infrastructural development in the Caribbean, the company recently rebranded, changing its name from CHEC Latin America to CHEC Americas—a name which reflects its desire to continue itself as a full service provider working with public and private sector clients in the Caribbean and the North, South and Central American region.

“We are committed to constructing a first class facility that will improve the lives of Abaconians,” said Colvin London, CHEC’s senior business manager for the Caribbean.

This announcement followed another project procurement in the region—the signing of an agreement for an industrial park and port in La Brea in Trinidad and Tobago valued at US $593 million.

In 2013, CHEC secured nearly US$1 billion worth of new projects in the Americas to add on to those currently being executed in The Panama Colon Container Terminal Phase III project; in San Vincente, Chile; the first leg of the North South Highway in Jamaica; the modernization of Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan International Airport and the flood mitigation works in Grenada.

“In any country in which CHEC operates, we try to better understand its people and the needs of the country as a whole,” said Mr Chang. “We look forward to a fruitful and symbiotic relationship where we can continue to work together with overarching goal of furthering development in the Bahamas.”