APN Director Discusses the Former Les Cayes Port

The Les Cayes port, located on Quai Street, has been highly dysfunctional since the late 1980s, reduced to a weathered concrete structure with occasional use as a pier serving coastal communities in the South. Explanations regarding the closure of this public facility are not widely known. A meeting with the director-general of the APN provided the official version of the closure of this once-thriving commercial port.

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APN Director Discusses the Former Les Cayes Port

Le directeur général de l'APN, M. Jocelin Villier

Why has the Les Cayes port, closed for over three decades, not resumed operations? This was one of the questions posed to Jocelyn Villier, the director-general of the National Port Authority (APN), during a recent meeting in the Northern metropolis. To address the question, he began by defining what a port is.

"A port is a designated space authorized by the state to accommodate ships for embarkation and disembarkation activities. It is also a shelter that must be protected from external elements that could disrupt the port are

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