Dec 2007 Financial News

Point Lisas Port on the move

Dec 10, 2007

THE POINT LISAS port has been re-organised over the last 12 weeks to separate containerised and break-bulk cargo to ensure efficient operations.

So said Roger Traboulay, president of the Point Lisas Indusrial Port Development Corporation (PLIPDECO) at the end of a Port Users meeting over the weekend. The Corporation’s annual Christmas Party was held afterwards.

He added that the Port intends to increase its container handling capacity in 2008. He explained that three additional rubber tire gantry cranes were installed bringing the total to six currently in use. Traboulay explained that a lay-by area for trucks was 80 percent complete while the empty container yard was 40 percent finished. He said that by April 2008, Plipdeco would be looking to procure two empty container handlers and one reach stacker.

One ship-to-shore gantry crane should also shortly become operational.

The port would also witness paving and signage areas, increase in security, the completion of an empty container yard and an electrical upgrade for equipment operating on the site.

Traboulay said Government’s willingness to put efficient management at the port of Point Lisas and the port of Port-of-Spain was a clear indication that they were serious about the growth and development of these ports.

Traboulay’s goal is to see Point Lisas become an efficient mid-sized port within the next three years.


Source:
HERMAN ROOP DASS
The Trinidad Newsday
Monday, December 10 2007

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