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The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has com­mend­ed the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion for restor­ing the Cus­toms Bor­der Con­trol Sys­tem (ASY­CU­DA), which was dis­rupt­ed on June 30 fol­low­ing a wa­ter leak at the Cus­toms House, Gov­ern­ment Cam­pus Plaza, Port of Spain.

The Cham­ber ac­knowl­edged the restora­tion but high­light­ed the need for im­proved in­fra­struc­ture re­dun­dan­cy and busi­ness con­ti­nu­ity plan­ning with­in the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion and across all crit­i­cal gov­ern­ment ser­vices.

The Cham­ber rec­om­mend­ed that au­thor­i­ties in­vest in back­up sys­tems and con­tin­gency pro­to­cols to main­tain op­er­a­tional con­ti­nu­ity or en­sure swift restora­tion if pri­ma­ry in­fra­struc­ture is af­fect­ed. It stat­ed that en­hanc­ing the re­silience of cus­toms in­fra­struc­ture is nec­es­sary to pro­tect the na­tion­al econ­o­my from fu­ture dis­rup­tions.