The Gov­ern­ment has spent $60 mil­lion to dredge the Port of Spain Port and ac­cord­ing to the Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port, the project is long over­due.

Dur­ing a me­dia tour to­day, Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan said the port has not been dredged for over a decade.

He said a com­pa­ny called Dutch Dredg­ing won the bid and the project is ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed by the end of Jan­u­ary as the dredg­ing team has been work­ing 24/7.

The min­is­ter al­so said there may be some cost-cut­ting.

So how will this ben­e­fit the pub­lic?

Well, ac­cord­ing to Min­is­ter Sinanan, af­ter the dredg­ing is com­plet­ed the ves­sels that trav­el be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go will use this route, which is the orig­i­nal route.

He said this al­so will free up the port for in­ter­na­tion­al ships.