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2005
2005, June 18: The Port of Kingston is already
moving towards the next major expansion of the port and the Government minister
with portfolio responsibility has announced the plans in the Parliament.
According to a report in the Jamaica Observer,
the country’s main port is to be made considerably bigger. Plans call for the
demolition of the adjacent Kingston Free Zone manufacturing complex.
The port now has a capacity 1.25 million TEU and
a USD46.2 million project now underway, is expand capacity to 1.5 million TEU.
The plans announced on June 16, 2005 by Transport and Works minister, Robert
Pickersgill, are intended to increase capacity from 1.5 million to 2.5 million
TEU by late 2007.
The full cost of this latest project is still
being tabulated, the Observer reported.
Pickersgill subsequently said that demolition of the
free zone would be necessary to provide berthing space for larger ships. He said
that at the end of the last fiscal year the terminal recorded container
throughput of 1.247 million TEU, as compared to the throughput of 1.087 million
TEU the previous year, an increase of 14.7 per cent.
The current expansion will be completed two
months ahead of schedule, in August 2005 but, at USD46.2 million, will be some
USD300,000 over budget.
EDITORS' NOTE:
The story also noted that minister Pickersgill's announcement coincided with
news out of Doha, Qatar that Thailand wants to use Jamaica as its commercial hub
to do business with the rest of the Caribbean. Thailand has reportedly advised
Jamaica’s Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, who is in Doha to chair the second
summit of the G77 and China, of its intention to send a trade delegation.
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