–CARICOM Chair
The high cost of a suitable vessel has set back plans for a regional ferry service despite initial optimism that Trinidad’s Galleons Passage would have enabled a quick start-up.
Chairman of CARICOM and Prime Minister of Grenada, Dickon Mitchell provided an update to the Sunday Stabroek.
“The challenge, obviously, is getting the right vessel, because we want a vessel that can do two things – carry cargo and at the same time carry passengers. We need a roll on/roll off vessel and getting the right vessel and getting the right price, particularly one that is fuel efficient is a challenge. It is really difficult to get the right vessel,” Mitchell said on Friday, on the sidelines of the CARICOM security meeting held in Guyana at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre in Liliendaal.
