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Vital support services for cruise and cargo ships A vital role is performed by the Marine Department of Barbados Port Inc. which provides cruise ships and cargo vessels with their first and last point of contact with the multipurpose Bridgetown Port.
Before they reach Bridgetown, all ships are tracked using the automatic identification system (AIS). This ensures that, on arrival in port, each vessel can expect to find a competent team of pilots, tug masters, line handlers and other essential staff with all the necessary information and equipment to make the ship’s call as smooth as possible. All ships entering Bridgetown are guided to their berthing area by one of the port’s four well qualified pilots. They greet the ships’ captains and give them a layout of the port together with information about their berthing area. In addition to Bridgetown Port, the pilots berth and unberth aviation fuel tankers in Oistins, gasoline and diesel tankers in Spring Garden and cement carriers at the Arawak Cement Company plant in St Lucy.
Record year for port calls In 2013 Barbados set a record, berthing up to seven cruise vessels in port on three occasions. This was achieved thanks to
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