BARBADOS
Bridgetown
Country Information:
International telephone Code: 246
Capital: Bridgetown
Official Language: English
Area: 430 square km (166 square miles)
Population: 284,000
Currency: Barbados dollar (BBD)
Public Holidays: New Year's Day; Errol Barrow Day (January
21); Good
Friday; Easter Monday; Heroes Day (April 28); May Day (May 1); Whit Monday; August Bank
Holiday (August 1); Kadooment Day (1st Monday in August); Independence
Day (November 30); Christmas Day (December 25); Boxing Day (December
26)
Organizations: Caricom Comm., OAS, UN, PAHO-WHO; UNICEF; CDB; CTO;
Ministry responsible for shipping:
Ministry International Business and International Transport
1st Floor, Warrens Business Complex, Warrens, St. Michael
Tel: +1 246 310 2200 - Fax: +1 246 424 2506
E-Mail: info@internationalbusiness.gov.bb
Banking Hours:
Mon-Thurs: 08.00-15.00
Fri: 08.00-17.00 - Sat/Sun: closed
The Shipping Association of Barbados
www.shippingbarbados.com
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 of ship's agents
and stevedoring companies. The current president is Mr. Glyne St. Hill, manager,
shipping department of Da Costa 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.
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 Inc.,
(www.barbadosport.com)
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 Inc. and the Government's Ministry
of Tourism.
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