Hyster keeps on trucking in region’s ports

A useful indicator of how Caribbean ports are expanding their facilities can be found in the demand for new material handling equipment.

Ports in Jamaica, Barbados, Saint Vincent, Dominica, the British Virgin Islands and Guyana, to name but a few, are investing in projects to expand their facilities. As a result, it is anticipated that the demand for new fork-lift trucks and other cargo handling equipment will continue to grow in the Caribbean maritime market.

One of the leading suppliers in this field is the United States-based company Hyster, which reports a significant level of sales across the Caribbean region.

In the first quarter of 2018 the Automotive Sector of the ANSA McAL Group delivered the first of a series of shipments of Hyster material handling equipment to Barbados Port Inc (BPI). These new state-of-the-art Hyster fork-lifts broaden the spectrum of equipment required to accommodate current packaging practices for lumber and related bulk cargoes handled at the Port of Bridgetown. ANSA Automotive continues to support BPI in its continued expansion project.

BPI chief executive David Jean-Marie (who is also president of the Caribbean Shipping Association) said: “We are happy to continue the decades of working with the reliable Hyster brand through its authorized dealer, ANSA Automotive.” He said BPI was continuing its strategic expansion with the build-out of Berth 6, a container freight station and a cruise passenger reception facility to meet the short-term and medium-term needs of its port facility.

Similarly, Point Lisas Industrial Port Development Corporation (PLIPDECO), one of the major ports in Trinidad, with six general cargo and container berths, recently purchased three Hyster big trucks for its facility.

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