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Op­er­a­tions at the Port of Point Lisas con­tin­ued yes­ter­day, al­though some truck dri­vers re­port­ed mi­nor de­lays in pro­cess­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion fol­low­ing the tem­po­rary clo­sure of se­lect­ed berths at the Port of Port-of-Spain to ac­com­mo­date the vis­it­ing Unit­ed States Navy de­stroy­er, USS Grave­ly.

Truck dri­vers wait­ing to col­lect con­tain­ers at the Point Lisas Port said the flow of goods re­mained steady, though pa­per­work and clear­ance pro­ce­dures were tak­ing slight­ly longer than usu­al.

Speak­ing at the port be­fore noon, dri­ver Ricky Ra­jlal said, “Nor­mal­ly at this time we would have al­ready been in the port and out on our way to the cus­tomer, but we’re still here wait­ing on doc­u­ments to be processed.” He not­ed that while there was “a nor­mal flow of trucks,” the line at the en­trance had grown longer as the morn­ing pro­gressed.