STATE ENTERPRISES’ INVESTMENT PROGRAMME 2014
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SUSTAINING GROWTH, SECURING PROSPERITY
BUSINESS FACILITATION
PALO SECO AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES LIMITED (PSAEL)
SEAFOOD INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LIMITED (SIDCL)
TUCKER VALLEY AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES LIMITED (TVAEL)
Palo Seco Agricultural Enterprises Limited
(PSAEL) was incorporated as a limited liability
company on October 11, 1956. The company was
a wholly owned subsidiary of Trinidad and Tobago
Petroleum Company Limited (TRINTOPEC).
PSAELmanages the non-core assets of TRINTOC
Tucker Valley Agricultural Enterprises Limited
(TVAEL) was incorporated on April 2, 2008 as
a wholly owned State Enterprise to manage the
Seafood Industry Development Company
Limited (SIDCL) was incorporated on March
31, 2006 as a wholly owned State Enterprise
to modernise the seafood sector. Its aim is to
and TRINTOPEC as well as property sales and
rentals of land and commercial buildings.
In2005,PSAELwas designated aSpecial Purpose
State Enterprise with a mandate to develop the
south-west peninsula of Trinidad and was made a
wholly owned State Enterprise in 2007.
operations of a 200 acre farm in Tucker Valley,
Chaguaramas.
make the sector sustainable, profitable and
internationally competitive, as well as to assist
with the empowerment and unification of the
coastal fishing communities.
EXPORTT LIMITED
ExporTT (formerly Business Development
Company Limited) was established to create
internationally competitive firms in the non-
energy, manufacturing and services sectors to
grow and diversify trade and generate wealth
through export led growth.
The main functions of ExporTT Limited include:
• providingmanufactures and service providers
with business friendly information on market
access opportunities;
• equipping firms with the necessary tools
to take advantage of market access
opportunities abroad;
• identifying opportunities for Trinidad and
Tobago’s products and services abroad;
• facilitating trade and export missions abroad
organised by the private sector;
• creating business linkages and matchmaking
between domestic suppliers and foreign
distributors;
ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE
