Work has begun for a re-designed stelling for Bartica which is expected to brighten the community’s water front.
Marclene Merchant, General Manager of the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) told the Government Information Agency that phase two of the project is catered for in the 2016 National Budget to the value of $300M.She added that phase two will see the re-design of the entire stelling which will see a two- storeyed building.“The ground floor will house the T&HD staff, a canteen and a waiting lounge for passengers … the upper flat will have offices that will be rented out to business people from the area,” Merchant explained.GINA said that the new stelling will feature floating ramps for speedboats that operate the Bartica-Parika route, and the building will be placed on concrete decking. Additionally, a floating link span ramp, similar to that which exists at Supenaam stelling will be constructed to provide for side loading.
“The link span ramp will be dropped onto the vessel rather than using stages…we have very heavy trucks traversing Parika-Bartica and very often we have problems with stages breaking,” Merchant told GINA.Phase one of the project saw $30.6M being forked out to replace the fender/mooring system, cluster piles and the dilapidated decking and rotten beams.
