Port
projects to push out NFM
By Roxanne Stapleton
Trinidad Express
Port Spain
Petroleumworldtt.com
06 24 07
NATIONAL FLOUR Mills is to be moved from Wrightson
Road, Port of Spain in due course, Prime Minister
Patrick Manning said yesterday.
He said this was necessary because some of the
world's leading port development and management
companies had expressed an interest to tender for
the development of the new Port of Port of Spain,
carded for an East Sea Lots, Port of Spain location.
While Manning was clear that the entire Wrightson
Road stretch would extensively change from how
we know it today, he stopped short of saying whether
NFM's relocation would allow for an extension of
the current port, make way for new development,
or whether there are also plans for the removal
or upgrade of other landmarks like the John Donaldson
Technical Institute.
He also made reference to the current development
of a port at Galeota for use by stakeholders in
the oil and gas industry, and another at Moruga
to be used by fishing industry stakeholders. Manning
made the disclosures during the Evolving Tecknologies
and Enterprise Development Company's (eTeck) alignment
seminar, which was held at the Hilton Trinidad
in St Ann's.
Wrightson Road has already started to undergo
a major transformation of sorts, with the Port
of Spain International Waterfront Project in full
swing.
Government
sources have maintained that a proposal for a
major link road has been placed on the table,
which will supposedly pass through the current
port facility "if and when it is decommissioned".
The Hyatt Regency Hotel, convention centre, 1,200
parking lot garage and office tower C-all tenets
of the Waterfront Project, are carded for an end
of year hand-over.
NFM's Edible Oils Complex and Rice Mill were closed
last year and more than 140 workers were offered
VSEP packages.
rstapleton@trinidadexpress.com
Trinidad
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Saturday, June 16th 2007
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