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The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has raised con­cern over se­ri­ous op­er­a­tional chal­lenges af­fect­ing car­go move­ment be­tween Port of Spain and To­ba­go, warn­ing that the con­straints are dis­rupt­ing sup­ply chains and in­creas­ing costs for busi­ness­es.

In a me­dia re­lease, the Cham­ber said it re­ceived de­tailed feed­back from mem­bers who re­port­ed ex­tend­ed de­liv­ery times, re­duced sail­ing fre­quen­cy, 48 to 52 hour truck turn­around cy­cles, pro­longed port wait­ing pe­ri­ods, high­er trans­porta­tion costs and in­ad­e­quate han­dling arrange­ments for re­frig­er­at­ed car­go.

The Cham­ber said what was pre­vi­ous­ly a pre­dictable one day sup­ply cy­cle has ex­pand­ed in­to a two to three day lo­gis­tics cy­cle.