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Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sinanan is urging the trade union representing port workers to settle negotiations with the Finance Ministry and Chief Personnel Officer.
Speaking at the commissioning of two state-of-the-art port scanners at the Port of Port-of-Spain yesterday, Sinanan referenced last year’s protest action by the Seamen and Waterfront Workers Union (SWWTU), which disrupted port operations and prevented a new record for container scans.
“This (last) year, 2024, the Port of Port-of-Spain should have broken the record for the amount of containers passing through, and because of that two-month period where some vessels bypassed us, we were not able to reach the figures that would have shown that the economy is a vibrant economy. Because right now, we have more containers coming into Trinidad than we had in the boom times,” Sinanan lamented.
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