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36 37 THE COUNTRY’S MAIN PORT T he Port of Be- lize is located in Belize City on the coast of the western Caribbean. “It is situated in the commercial district, which makes the Port very important to the entire importing and exporting operations of the country,” says Arturo Vasquez, the Port of Belize’s Chief Execu- tive Officer. In fact, Vasquez reports that the Port han- dles between 95 and 98 percent of the country’s imports and well over half of its exports. “There is only one more port in the coun- try (Big Creek Port) that is operational, and it’s in the southern part of the country, where the agro-productive sector is located–banan- as, citrus, beans, corn, rice, sugar. So there are a lot of exports handled there, because the farms and agro-businesses are closer.” THE PORT OF BELIZE THE BELIZE OF