And while the company has expanded its storage facilities and export capabilities at the Big Creek Port, it someday hopes to sell its product on the local market. That's strictly disallowed under the terms of its "Designated Processing Area" agreement with Beltraide, but the company earnestly hopes it can break into this marginal but symbolically important market:
Beverly Burke, Gov't Affairs and Public Relations Mgr.
"We are a Belize company and what Jose said most of what we do is dome in our local currency. We contribute greatly to the economy and it will definitely help us to put that face to Santander by being able to operate within the very same jurisdiction that we have built and invested in. So for us it is more significant, it will lend to the need for us to really be recognize here fully. It's from that standpoint I think it's extremely crucial for us to have our product on the shelves. We have o sell. We have to move the product that we make and in order for us to do that we have to focus holistically and don't get me wrong, no means of saying that we are not focus locally. We are, it's just for us to keep at it and to ensure that that decision comes sooner rather than later that at least we can have our small portion of the Belize market."
