Aisha Maina secures Afreximbank-backed USD 40 million St Kitts port investment
Managing Director of Aquarian Consult and founder of Gemini Integrated Commodities, Aisha Maina, has completed an intensive week of engagements that unite policy, private capital and hard infrastructure around a single objective: building a reliable commercial bridge between Africa and the Caribbean.
The new port will anchor a 10 square kilometre special economic zone designed for agro processing, light assembly and bonded warehousing.
Feasibility studies begin in August, and financial close is targeted for Q1 2026.
The facility is expected to create thousands of jobs and attract an additional USD 300 million in private investment. For Saint Kitts & Nevis, a nation of fewer than 60,000 people, the project positions the federation as a logistics hinge between 19 African and 12 Caribbean Commonwealth members. For exporters in West Africa, it removes a costly European detour and delivers end-to-end digital customs visibility.
“Africa and the Caribbean need assets, not just aspirations. With this port we move from promise to throughput, from talk to tonnage. It is the physical backbone of a trade bridge that has been too long in the making,” says Maina.
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