ZED Mariel: Interview with General Director Ana Teresa Igarza

T. K. Hernández ()

Chapter Chapter 15 in The Cuba Interviews, 2023, pp 147-155 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Industrial zones have long been identified as a beneficial component of economic development. Part III examines the benefits of industrial zones for developing countries which include generating employment and skills training, enabling technology transfer, increasing foreign investment, exports, connectivity, and building infrastructure. This chapter comprises an interview with the General Director of the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM), Ana Teresa Igarza Martínez. Today, Cuba’s Special Development Zone looks like any other world-class industrial city. It has progressed from a single container port and barren fields to a zone of warehouses, buildings under construction, an extensive network of paved roads, utility poles dotting the landscape, container trucks pulling up for deliveries, residential homes and services for workers, and a modern train station. At the time of this interview, Zed Mariel housed 62 businesses achieving over $3 billion worth of investment, and reinvestment by some of the original investors. By 2020, its container port had processed 2,000,000 TEUs since its inauguration in January 2014. Topics also covered in this discussion with Ms. Igarza are the history of the ZED Mariel, Cuba’s first export processing zones, management support services, protection of its investors, employment, benefits to the surrounding communities, and its contributions to sustainable economic development.

Keywords: Cuba; Zed Mariel; Mariel Special Development Zone; Industrial zones; Foreign investment; Economic development; Ana Teresa Igarza (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30203-9_15

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