Air­craft parts man­u­fac­tur­ing, main­te­nance, and train­ing could soon form part of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­dus­tri­al mix, ac­cord­ing to the Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Spe­cial Eco­nom­ic Zones Au­thor­i­ty (SEZA), Stephen De Gannes.

Speak­ing at a break­fast sem­i­nar host­ed by the Cou­va/Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce on Wednes­day, De Gannes said the avi­a­tion sec­tor holds promise un­der the coun­try’s evolv­ing Spe­cial Eco­nom­ic Zones (SEZ) strat­e­gy.

“If there is a com­pa­ny that would like to come in­to Trinidad and maybe use our lo­ca­tion to man­u­fac­ture parts for the Caribbean for air­craft — and they get cer­ti­fied — that would be some­thing we would want to en­cour­age,” De Gannes told at­ten­dees. He al­so iden­ti­fied the Cam­den airstrip in Cou­va as a po­ten­tial site for de­vel­op­ing avi­a­tion-re­lat­ed ac­tiv­i­ty.