The decision of the government of the provisional prime minister, Garry Conille, is adopted after four ships anchored in the bay left due to the difficult situation created by bandits.

Three 110-foot vessels will now be put into operation, one of which will be in the waters of La Gonâve to escort the ships to the halfway point, another to take them to port, and a third will accompany them on their departure from Port-au-Prince.

The newspaper Le Nouvelliste recalled that two Filipino crew members of a ship, a mechanic and the cook, were recently kidnapped 15 nautical miles from the port terminal.

In this context, the bandits also fired several shots at the port, and the buildings from which they were firing were destroyed.

These misdeeds aimed at scaring off the shipping companies, and with them, making a dent in imports, take place precisely when smuggling from the neighboring Dominican Republic is gaining strength again, and the question arises, according to the newspaper, to whom it is convenient to annul this link of the national economy.

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