With the M.V. Cabo Star sched­uled for dry­dock­ing next month, Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jear­lean John met to­day with To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine to dis­cuss strate­gic in­fra­struc­ture pri­or­i­ties and in­ter­im car­go trans­port mea­sures.

The meet­ing, held in To­ba­go on Wednes­day 11 June, fo­cused on “the en­hance­ment of in­ter-is­land con­nec­tiv­i­ty, on­go­ing port de­vel­op­ment, and pro­posed car­go trans­port mea­sures” dur­ing the ves­sel’s ab­sence from Ju­ly 12 to Au­gust 3, ac­cord­ing to a Min­istry re­lease.

The Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go out­lined its in­ter­im plans to en­sure the un­in­ter­rupt­ed move­ment of car­go dur­ing the dry­dock­ing pe­ri­od. While full de­tails will be an­nounced sep­a­rate­ly, both lead­ers agreed on the need for sus­tained co­op­er­a­tion.