The links that make up Puerto Rico’s food chain — shippers, distributors and retailers — need to become as efficient as possible to keep costs in check as external pressures continue mounting and threatening the price and availability of products.
New York-based National Public Finance Guarantee Corp. on Wednesday gave props to the government’s progress in successfully addressing Puerto Rico’s “structurally unbalanced fiscal environment.”
Cement sales on the island continued their downward spiral during the last quarter of 2010, dropping close to 8 percent, but remained nearly flat year-over-year.