Aims and Objectives

1. To promote the business interests of the private sector;

2. To further the economic development in Lae and to ensure the provision of services and utilities essential to such development;

3. To provide a representative body for business people with which government can consult;

4. To promote, support or oppose legislation or other measures affecting the business community;

5. To provide a forum for discussion of private sector goals;

6. To pool the strengths of business people so that together, they can accomplish tasks that cannot be achieved by each one alone;

7. To promote the economic viability of the area, so those current businesses will grow and new ones will be developed locally;

8. To provide the business sector with a common voice.