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Cus­tomers af­fect­ed by pro­longed de­lays in­volv­ing Trin­ba­go Ex­press USA are set to re­ceive long-await­ed re­lief, as the Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (PATT) has an­nounced that the de­liv­ery of car­go will now pro­ceed fol­low­ing Gov­ern­ment in­ter­ven­tion.

In a news re­lease is­sued yes­ter­day, PATT said it was aware that cit­i­zens util­is­ing the ser­vices of Trin­ba­go Ex­press USA had been un­able to take de­liv­ery of their car­go for sev­er­al months due to cir­cum­stances out­side of the Port Au­thor­i­ty’s con­trol. The sit­u­a­tion re­sult­ed in hard­ship and in­con­ve­nience for cus­tomers, many of whom had ship­ments held at lo­cal ports with lit­tle clar­i­ty on when they would be re­leased.

The re­lease not­ed the Gov­ern­ment recog­nised the chal­lenges ex­pe­ri­enced by af­fect­ed cus­tomers and took de­ci­sive ac­tion to fa­cil­i­tate the re­ceipt of their car­go un­der Sec­tion 8 of the Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go Act. This le­gal pro­vi­sion has now en­abled PATT, work­ing along­side Cus­toms, to pro­ceed with the de­liv­ery of el­i­gi­ble goods.