Hoping to further boost local content as all heavy-lifting and storage works will be transferred to Guyana from the current location in Trinidad and Tobago, the Guyana Shore Base Inc (GYSBI) is forging ahead with expansion as it adds two specialty berthing facilities set to cost some US$16 million.
“This is a US$16 million project here, of which I have clarified from the developers is for local contractors and sand provi-ders, transportation…local people are getting that. Those constructions will generate at least 140 full- time workers [when completed]. That is work for Guyanese people,” Minis-ter in the Ministry of Public Works Deodat Indar told reporters during a site visit yesterday.
“As you know, heavy lifts have been done in Chaguaramas or Galeota [port] in Trinidad and all of the services associated with it, whether it was transportation, crane services, logistics, brokerage, all done in Trinidad and then put on vessels and then it goes straight offshore. With this development now, it will happen in Guyana at the Guyanese wharf. I am very pleased with what I am seeing,” he added.