[2] The port is approached from the Port-au-Prince over a well maintained road, Route Nationale 1 (100).

[6] Lafiteau is the home of the Port Lafito Industrial Free Zone, Haiti's only Panamax seaport.

[7][8] The construction of the Port Lafito and of a free zone, located 25 minutes from Port-au-Prince, at a cost of US$150 million, is part of the "Lafito Global" project initiated by Gilbert Bigio's GB Group, in partnership with the Haitian government and several other Haitian private sector entrepreneurs to create jobs and stimulate the local economy.

In October 2010, news reports stated there were two cholera-related deaths in Lafiteau.

[10] Victims of the Haiti presidents "Papa Doc" Duvaliers and "Baby Doc" Duvalier were buried in mass graves in Lafiteau, as were 100,000 of the 2010 Haiti earthquake victims.