Businesses in Barbados that felt the fallout from the recent go-slow by Customs’ officers are hoping for a waiver of some of charges due at the Bridgetown Port during that period.
Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) executive director Lisa Gale said that as part of its efforts to negate “negative implications for an already depressed retail and distributive sector”, the BCCI “reached out to the Bridgetown Port Inc. (BPI) to ask for leniency in the port charges”.
The Chamber noted that “when containers take too long to be cleared this results in storage charges and demurrage charges”.
“BCCI was advised that it would be on a case by case basis and members would have to clearly show through documentation that delays were outside of their control.
