The Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion, the Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Port of Port-of-Spain, and the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Port De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion Lim­it­ed have an­nounced joint mea­sures to man­age ves­sel traf­fic and car­go op­er­a­tions be­tween Oc­to­ber 22 and Oc­to­ber 30, 2025.

The col­lab­o­ra­tion aims to min­imise de­lays to im­porters and ex­porters by al­low­ing for the tem­po­rary redi­rec­tion and pro­cess­ing of ves­sels and car­go at the Port of Point Lisas. Ship­ping Lines, Agents, and Ship­pers who use this op­tion are ex­pect­ed to re­ceive car­go as sched­uled.

The Port of Port-of-Spain and Point Lisas man­age­ment teams have co­or­di­nat­ed to en­sure seam­less berthing, car­go han­dling, and doc­u­men­ta­tion process­es. Rel­e­vant ves­sel de­tails have been shared be­tween both ports, and agents have been added to the Point Lisas ves­sel sched­ule. Cus­toms and Ex­cise Of­fi­cers have been de­ployed to sup­port ad­di­tion­al in­spec­tion and clear­ance op­er­a­tions.

Ship­ping agents have been ad­vised to con­tact their ves­sel agents re­gard­ing ser­vice avail­abil­i­ty at Point Lisas. Full ex­port and tran­ship­ment con­tain­ers at the Port of Port-of-Spain are be­ing trans­ferred to Point Lisas un­der Cus­toms su­per­vi­sion to main­tain reg­u­lar op­er­a­tions.

Gate hours at the Port of Point Lisas have been ex­tend­ed to han­dle re­quests for ser­vice. The arrange­ment will re­main in ef­fect un­til Oc­to­ber 30, 2025.

Of­fi­cials stat­ed that the ini­tia­tive sup­ports na­tion­al trade re­silience and op­er­a­tional flex­i­bil­i­ty across both ports. Con­tin­u­ous up­dates will be pro­vid­ed as nor­mal op­er­a­tions re­sume.