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By Mike Jarrett
Dubbed ‘the centrepiece’ of Jamaica’s Global Logistics Hub initiative, the Caymanas Special Economic Zone (CSEZ) is best described as a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in which business production entities are housed and facilitated with space, modernised systems, skills and ready access to global supply routes.
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By Mike Jarrett
In 1976, four years before the first Special Economic Zones (SEZ) were created in the coastal area of southeastern China, Jamaica’s government had already established its first such facility next to the Kingston trans-shipment port.
The Kingston Free Zone of about 180,000 m2 ( 44.5 acres) was followed 10 years later by the twice-as-large Montego Bay Free Zone, established on the western side of the Jamaican north coast tourist mecca. Private and single entity free zones – Hayes, Garmex and Cazoumar – were also established, largely to facilitate the outsourcing business in the garment sector.