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CSA President urges shipping industry
CSA President urges shipping
industry ...
2005, May 24, Kingstown, SVG: The President of
the Caribbean Shipping Association (CSA) has urged port managers and all
businesses in the shipping industry to review their disaster preparedness plans
before the start of the 2005 hurricane season.
Addressing some 100 delegates the opening
ceremony of the fourth annual Caribbean Shipping Executives Conference on Monday
(May 23), in Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Mrs. Corah Ann
Robertson-Sylvester noted that meteorologist had predicted that the 2005
hurricane season would be quite active.
She urged delegates attending the three-day event
to review their disaster preparedness plans. This exercise, she said, should
include senior staff as well as other personnel. This is necessary in order to
ensure that such plans could be fully implemented within 36 hours. And, she
said, if the organization did not have a disaster preparedness plan, then one
should be developed immediately.
CSA TO
WORK WITH RED CROSS
At the
CSA's General Council meeting, held on Sunday May 22 at the Sunset Shores hotel,
the Association discussed working with the Red Cross to assist the Caribbean
shipping industry to prepare for hurricanes. Following a presentation by the
Trinidad and Tobago Red Cross, the CSA's Council discussed disaster preparedness
and disaster relief, recognizing that, following a hurricane, affected countries
needed to have their seaports open and functioning as quickly as possible in
order to receive shipments of food and relief supplies.
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