CSA

Mission Statement
"To promote and foster the highest quality service to the maritime industry through training development; working with all agencies, groups and other associations for the benefit and development of its members and the peoples of the Caribbean region."

GENERAL COUNCIL
2007-2008

PRESIDENT:
Fernando Rivera

VICE PRESIDENT:
Carlos Urriola

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT:
Corah-Ann Robertson Sylvester

GROUP A CHAIRMAN:
Robert Foster

GROUP A REPRESENTATIVE:
Michael Bernard

GROUP A REPRESENTATIVE:
Ian Deosaran

GROUP A REPRESENTATIVE:
Francis Comacho

GROUP B CHAIRMAN:
Grantley Stephenson

GROUP B REPRESENTATIVE:
David Jean-Marie

GROUP C CHAIRMAN:
Johan Bjorksten

GROUP C REPRESENTATIVE:
Cyril Seyjagat

GENERAL MANAGER:
Clive Forbes

DIRECTOR INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS:
Michael S.L. Jarrett

BARBADOS
BridgeTown

Country Information:

International telephone Code: 246

Capital: Bridgetown

Official Language: English

Area: 430 square km (166 square miles)

Population: 261,000

Currency: Barbados dollar (BBD)

Public Holidays: New Year's Day - Errol Barrow Day (21 Jan) Good Friday - Easter Monday - May Day (2 May) - Whit Monday Kadooment Day (1 Aug) - United Nations Day (3 Oct) Independence Day (30 Nov) - Christmas Day (25 Dec) - Boxing Day (26 Dec)

Organizations: Caricom, Comm., OAS, UN

Ministry responsible for shipping:

Ministry of Tourism & International Transport,

Port Authority Building, University Row, St Michael.

Tel: +246 429 4839 or +246 429 4161 - Fax: +246 431 0121

Business Hours: Mon-Wed: 08.00-12.00/13.00-16.30

Thurs: 08.00-12.00/13.00-16.00 - Sat/Sun: closed

Banking Hours: Mon-Thurs: 08.00-15.00

Fri: 08.00-17.00 - Sat/Sun: closed

The Shipping Association of Barbados

Establishment: Prior to 1979, Port Contractors Limited (a private company which administered cargo handling operations at the Bridgetown Port), shipping agents and stevedore contractors formed the Shipping Group of the Barbados Employers' Confederation. On the initiative of two of our founding members, the decision was taken to form the Shipping Association of Barbados and that organization became effective 1 January 1981.

Objectives: The Shipping Association of Barbados seeks, among other things, to provide for consultation between members; to ascertain their views on matters of common interest; to collect and circulate statistical and other information relating to the shipping industry; and to co-operate with or be a member of any organisation, either national or international, whose objects are consistent with those of the association.

To achieve its objectives, the association maintains a secretariat in Bridgetown to provide administrative support for the activities of the committee of management, the association's managing body. The secretariat is fully computerised and is capable of meeting the future needs of the association's members.

Membership: Membership of the association is made up primarily of ship's agents and stevedoring companies and now stands at 21, with one honorary member in the person of its first secretary/treasurer, who retired in 1992. The current president is Mr Anthony Gittens, manager, shipping department of Dacosta Mannings Inc.

The Shipping Association of Barbados is a member of the Caribbean Shipping Association (CSA) and as such enjoys automatic access to the French, Spanish and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, three of the four major language groups embraced by the CSA. The benefits which this association derives through its links with the CSA include training, research and representation at government and Caricom Secretariat level. Mr David Harding, managing director of Sea Freight Agencies (Barbados) Ltd, is a trustee on the committee of management of the Shipping Association of Barbados and is the current president of the Caribbean Shipping Association.

Operations: The business of loading and offloading cargo to and from ships is carried out by private stevedoring contractors, who are members of the Shipping Association of Barbados. The Barbados Port Authority, the sole employer of labour at the Bridgetown Port, and the Shipping Association of Barbados (acting on behalf of its member stevedoring contractors) entered into an agreement whereby the port authority would provide the stevedoring contractors with all the labour needed to carry out their business in the port. In order to ensure the smooth running of the stevedoring operations, the association holds monthly meetings with the management of the port authority at which problems encountered by members are aired, discussed and, in most cases, resolved. The interests of member shipping agents who represent cruise lines are also looked after by the association through collaboration with the Barbados Port Authority and the Government's Ministry of Tourism.

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