Barbados shipping reps tour Port of Kingston
published: Tuesday | July 11, 2006

Members of the Shipping Association of Jamaica (SAJ) and the Shipping Association of Barbados (SAB) are pictured together following their dinner meeting at the Terra Nova Hotel last week. They are: (front row, from left) Michael Bernard, president of the SAJ; CorahAnn Robertson-Sylvester, president of the Caribbean Shipping Association; Robert Foster, president of the SAB; Emerson Alleyne, office manager/treasurer of the SAB; (middle row, from left) Glyne St. Hill, vice-president of the SAB; Harry Maragh, immediate past president of the SAJ; Robert Bowen, trustee of the SAB; (back row, from left) Marc Sampson, manager of Windward Agencies Limited (B'dos); Trevor Riley, general manager of the SAJ; Garth Kitson, general manager - operations for Kingston Wharves Limited, and Roger Hinds, vice-president of the SAJ. - CONTRIBUTED

REPRESENTATIVES OF the Shipping Association of Barbados (SAB), led by SAB President Robert Foster, visited Jamaica last week as part of their three-nation tour that also included Trinidad & Tobago and Puerto Rico.

While in Jamaica, the five-man SAB delegation met with members of the Shipping Association of Jamaica (SAJ) and toured the Port of Kingston to observe operations at Kingston Wharves Limited and the Kingston Container Terminal.

Both the SAJ and the SAB are founding members of the Caribbean Shipping Association and such familiarisation tours and fraternal exchange of ideas take place regularly as Caribbean ports continuously seek to increase their productivity and international competitiveness.

Michael Bernard, president of the SAJ, hosted the visiting Barbadian delegation to dinner at the Terra Nova Hotel on of Tuesday, July 4, at which Jamaican and Barbadian shipping executives discussed areas of cooperation and collaboration. Also present at the dinner meeting was CorahAnn Robertson-Sylvester, president of the Caribbean Shipping Association and Managing Committee member of the SAJ.

The SAJ and the Port of Kingston have both earned positive international reputations for pursuing development strategies that promote improved efficiencies and harmonious industrial relations.