Manzanillo Port is located in Manzanillo, Montecristi, Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

. It is very close to the border with Haiti

Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

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Overview

Port of Manzanillo was built in the 1950s by the Dominican Fruit Company (La Grenada), a North American company dedicated to export bananas and other minor fruits of the country.

This harbor currently is under a leasing-trade for its reconstruction and still been supervised by the Dominican Port Authority.

Its operations are based on deplaning clinker, material for concrete, exportation of domestic products such as animals, fruits and food to Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

and sometimes General Cargo and Container Cargo operations.

Port information

• Location: Latitude 43’N 19º Longitude 45’W 71°
• Local time: GMT – 4
• Weather/Climate/Prevailing Winds: From May 15 until September 15.
• Climate: mostly sunny, tropical. Hurricane season runs from June to November
• Prevailing winds: direction ENE-ESE.
• Average temperature range: 28C-30C.