Trinidad Trek.MIAMI Miami, cities, United States Miami (mīăm`ē, –ə). 1 City (1990 pop. 358,548), seat of Dade co., SE Fla., on Biscayne Bay at the mouth of the Miami River; inc. 1896. , SURE. FREEPORT, OK. PANAMA, UNDERSTANDABLE. BUT, Trinidad as a major transshipment Transshipment The passing goods from one ocean vessel to another. hub? That's right. Two Trinidadian ports are battling for the Caribbean's fast-growing transhipment business. The state-owned Port of Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (trĭn`ĭdăd, təbā`gō), officially Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, republic (2005 est. pop. 1,088,000), 1,980 sq mi (5,129 sq km), West Indies. The capital is Port of Spain. (PATT) is expected to approve a business plan to privatize the port at Port of Spain Port of Spain, city (1990 pop. 50,878), capital of Trinidad and Tobago, on the Gulf of Paria. It is the industrial and commercial center of the country. From 1958 to 1962, Port of Spain was the capital of the dissolved Federation of the West Indies; in 2005 it became . PATT handled about 282,000 20-foot containers worth of cargo last year, of which 148,000 were transhipment traffic--that is, the boxes were only passing through on their way to some other final destination. To the south, Point Lisas port is about to embark on a first phase of container-handling enhancements. They include the building of a large quay and a back-up area that would give the port a handling capability of 300,000 20-footers worth of cargo per year. The new terminal is expected to be operational in the second or third quarter of 2002. Last year the port handled about 60,000 20-foot boxes worth of cargo. |
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