Ship­ping com­pa­ny Amer­i­jet has in­vest­ed ap­prox­i­mate­ly US$1.5 mil­lion to US $2 mil­lion in T&T as it en­ters in­to the lease of an of­fice lo­cat­ed on Vic­to­ria Av­enue, Port-of-Spain, to es­tab­lish a shared ser­vices cen­tre.

This is ex­pect­ed to gen­er­ate 25 jobs in the first in­stance and even­tu­al­ly ex­pand to 50.

The cen­tre will pri­mar­i­ly sup­port in­ter­nal ac­counts payable/re­ceiv­able and rev­enue ac­count­ing func­tions, as well as project man­age­ment/busi­ness in­tel­li­gence func­tions of Amer­i­jet, which are present­ly pro­vid­ed out of its Mi­a­mi hub.

John Ha­gan, di­rec­tor of rev­enue ac­count­ing, and Si­mon Pan­tin, head of glob­al ac­count pro­gramme de­vel­op­ment of Amer­i­jet re­cent­ly met with Trade Min­is­ter Paula Gopee-Scoon to pro­vide some de­tails on the op­er­a­tions ex­pect­ed to start in Q1, 2023.

“Amer­i­jet In­ter­na­tion­al has been serv­ing T&T for more than 30 years and has al­ways been im­pressed with the qual­i­ty of po­ten­tial em­ploy­ees, when look­ing to fill po­si­tions lo­cal­ly.

“We are ex­cit­ed with the es­tab­lish­ment of our new shared ser­vices cen­tre and look for­ward to grow­ing with the peo­ple of this amaz­ing coun­try,” Pan­tin said.

Gopee-Scoon al­so wel­comed Amer­i­jet’s new in­vest­ment which she not­ed re­flect­ed the US-based com­pa­ny’s on­go­ing con­fi­dence in do­ing busi­ness in this coun­try.

In­vesTT’s pres­i­dent Sek­ou Al­leyne added that the or­gan­i­sa­tion looks for­ward to fur­ther en­gage­ment with Amer­i­jet and its po­ten­tial for fu­ture ex­pan­sion un­der the Spe­cial Eco­nom­ic Zone.