Port of Bridgetown

Port of Bridgetown
Port of Bridgetown
	Gatehouse for the Deep Water Harbour from the Princess Alice Highway. (c. November 2000)
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Location
Country	Barbados
Location	Bridgetown, St. Michael
Coordinates	13°06′22″N 59°37′55″W / 13.106°N 59.632°W
UN/LOCODE	BBBGI
Details
Opened	1961
Operated by	Barbados Port, Inc.
Owned by	Government of Barbados
Type of harbour	Artificial; (Coastal Breakwater);
No. of berths	12
No. of wharfs	0
No. of piers	0
Employees	592
Statistics
	Website; www.barbadosport.com

The Port of Bridgetown (officially the Deep Water Harbour),^[4] (UN/LOCODE: BB BGI, Port Callsign: 8PB) is a seaport in Bridgetown on the southwest coast of Barbados.^[5] Situated at the North-Western end of Carlisle Bay, the harbour handles all of the country's international bulk ship-based trade and commerce.^[6] In addition to international-shipping the Deep Water Harbour is the port of entry for southern-Caribbean cruise ships.^[7] The port is one of three designated ports of entry in Barbados, along with the privately owned Port Saint Charles marina and the Sir Grantley Adams International Airport. The port's time zone is GMT −4, and it handles roughly 700,000^[8] cruise passengers and 900,000 tonnes of containerised cargo per year.

^ "UNLOCODE (BB) - BARBADOS". service.unece.org. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
^ Aerial photo of the Deep Water Harbour
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^ "Port of Bridgetown" World Port Source, Port Detail
^ T, C (October 25, 2006). "Barbados 'best home port'". Nation Newspaper. Archived from the original on March 10, 2007. Retrieved October 10, 2009. Barbados has at times been billed the largest and most active cruise line home port in the world. And Barbadians are fast becoming the beneficiaries of this growing multi-million-dollar industry. That was the word from Minister of Tourism Noel Lynch, as Barbados prepares to host 18 home-porting cruise ships during the coming winter tourist season. Lynch made these disclosures during a Press conference yesterday at the Caribbean Tourism Conference (CTC 29) taking place at the Westin and Sheraton Grand Bahama Lucaya Resort, Grand Bahama Island. "We will be having just about 17 or 18 ships turning in Barbados as a home port. And what will be happening in 2008 is that P&O Cruise Line (Pacific and Orient) is gearing up to bring an even larger ship to Barbados. Home porting contributes significantly to our numbers and to the economy. These ships cause people to be surprised about the level of provisioning that is done locally and the level of service which goes into these ships," he said.
^ Applewhaite, Gillian (October 10, 2009), "Barbados PM discusses growth of cruise business with Carnival CEO", CaribbeanNetNews.com, Cayman Islands, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS)—Barbados is considered central to Carnival PLC's developing cruise business, with three ships, Ventura, Oceana and Artemis, expected to home port in Bridgetown this winter season. This number should increase to four from winter 2010, when the new luxury ship Azura is launched. Chief Executive of Carnival UK, David Dingle, made this known during a meeting with Prime Minister David Thompson in Great Britain earlier this week. Describing the meeting as "very productive", Thompson said it was clear that Carnival UK saw Barbados as a key partner in the development of its cruise business within the Caribbean.
^ B., J. M. (January 25, 2011). "Forecast looking good for passenger growth". The Barbados Advocate. Archived from the original on March 26, 2012. Retrieved January 25, 2011. "Our thrust is to take the number of cruise passengers from 700,000 to 1.2 million per year. A significant percentage of these will be part of the Air/Sea and Stay/Cruise programs. Existing facilities at GAIA are already stressed to handle passenger volumes during the 12 to 4 p.m. period. The new focus of developing the air/sea program will necessitate a suitable review of the airport plant and no doubt this will be addressed in by the master plan," he said.

[Locode-1-1] "UNLOCODE (BB) - BARBADOS". service.unece.org. Retrieved April 22, 2020.

[2] Aerial photo of the Deep Water Harbour

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[5] "Port of Bridgetown" World Port Source, Port Detail

[6] T, C (October 25, 2006). "Barbados 'best home port'". Nation Newspaper. Archived from the original on March 10, 2007. Retrieved October 10, 2009. Barbados has at times been billed the largest and most active cruise line home port in the world. And Barbadians are fast becoming the beneficiaries of this growing multi-million-dollar industry. That was the word from Minister of Tourism Noel Lynch, as Barbados prepares to host 18 home-porting cruise ships during the coming winter tourist season. Lynch made these disclosures during a Press conference yesterday at the Caribbean Tourism Conference (CTC 29) taking place at the Westin and Sheraton Grand Bahama Lucaya Resort, Grand Bahama Island. "We will be having just about 17 or 18 ships turning in Barbados as a home port. And what will be happening in 2008 is that P&O Cruise Line (Pacific and Orient) is gearing up to bring an even larger ship to Barbados. Home porting contributes significantly to our numbers and to the economy. These ships cause people to be surprised about the level of provisioning that is done locally and the level of service which goes into these ships," he said.

[7] Applewhaite, Gillian (October 10, 2009), "Barbados PM discusses growth of cruise business with Carnival CEO", CaribbeanNetNews.com, Cayman Islands, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS)—Barbados is considered central to Carnival PLC's developing cruise business, with three ships, Ventura, Oceana and Artemis, expected to home port in Bridgetown this winter season. This number should increase to four from winter 2010, when the new luxury ship Azura is launched. Chief Executive of Carnival UK, David Dingle, made this known during a meeting with Prime Minister David Thompson in Great Britain earlier this week. Describing the meeting as "very productive", Thompson said it was clear that Carnival UK saw Barbados as a key partner in the development of its cruise business within the Caribbean.

[8] B., J. M. (January 25, 2011). "Forecast looking good for passenger growth". The Barbados Advocate. Archived from the original on March 26, 2012. Retrieved January 25, 2011. "Our thrust is to take the number of cruise passengers from 700,000 to 1.2 million per year. A significant percentage of these will be part of the Air/Sea and Stay/Cruise programs. Existing facilities at GAIA are already stressed to handle passenger volumes during the 12 to 4 p.m. period. The new focus of developing the air/sea program will necessitate a suitable review of the airport plant and no doubt this will be addressed in by the master plan," he said.

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