The European Union will invest US$5.3 million to rehabilitate the Port of Manzanillo in the northwestern province of Monte Cristi. The port is near Haiti and could serve both nations. This is part of the Lome IV Convention aid package to help developing countries that were former European colonies. A French firm won the bid to rehabilitate the port. The Lome IV assistance program also contemplates the construction of a highway from Cap Haitien, Haiti to Dajabón in the DR, in addition to the construction of a modern customs department.
