The TCL Group has en­tered in­to a long-term agree­ment with the WIN Group of Haiti for the es­tab­lish­ment and op­er­a­tion of a ce­ment ter­mi­nal on ap­prox­i­mate­ly five acres of land at Ter­mi­nal Var­reux in Port-au-Prince. A state­ment from TCL said the ef­fects of the Jan­u­ary 12, 2010 earth­quake stim­u­lat­ed tremen­dous sup­port from the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty, and the TCL Group, be­ing the largest sup­pli­er of ce­ment to Cari­com, of which Haiti is a mem­ber, was de­ter­mined to make a more fun­da­men­tal in­vest­ment in Haiti and sig­nif­i­cant­ly as­sist in the mas­sive re­con­struc­tion ef­forts re­quired, in par­tic­u­lar at Port-au-Prince.

The project has been in the plan­ning process over the last year and in­clud­ed im­por­tant pil­lars for sus­tain­abil­i­ty and growth be­yond the coun­try's im­me­di­ate re­quire­ments, in­clud­ing the group's de­ci­sion to work with the rep­utable, well-es­tab­lished Hait­ian con­glom­er­ate WIN Group. WIN Group's com­pa­nies are some of the old­est and longest op­er­at­ing cor­po­ra­tions in Haiti and are cur­rent­ly in­volved in re­lat­ed as well as di­verse in­dus­tries such as port op­er­a­tions, pe­tro­le­um stor­age, di­ver­si­fied ware­hous­ing and in­dus­tri­al parks.

Phase One of the project will see the es­tab­lish­ment of a Ce­ment Ware­house Fa­cil­i­ty/Op­er­a­tion with­in six months for the sup­ply of bagged ce­ment (42.5kgs) orig­i­nat­ing at Caribbean Ce­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (CC­CL), the TCL Group's op­er­a­tion in Ja­maica, while fur­ther eval­u­a­tion of a ce­ment bag­ging ter­mi­nal is ac­tive­ly pur­sued. Phase Two will be the es­tab­lish­ment of a 400,000mt Ce­ment Ter­mi­nal over three to four years, con­tin­gent on de­mand-sup­ply dy­nam­ics and the com­ple­tion of a de­tailed en­gi­neer­ing and fea­si­bil­i­ty eval­u­a­tion. Bulk ce­ment will then be im­port­ed from CC­CL via ded­i­cat­ed ce­ment car­ri­ers and pack­aged in 42.5kg and jum­bo bags at the up­grad­ed fa­cil­i­ty to sat­is­fy the needs of cus­tomers.