The Gov­ern­ment will al­lo­cate $200 mil­lion for the con­struc­tion of a ter­mi­nal and as­so­ci­at­ed fa­cil­i­ties of the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in fis­cal 2023.

The project, which is be­ing ex­e­cut­ed by NID­CO, aims to cre­ate an in­ter­na­tion­al air­port with suf­fi­cient ca­pac­i­ty and lev­el of ser­vice to sup­port tourism de­vel­op­ment and air trav­el in To­ba­go.

Ac­cord­ing to the Pub­lic Sec­tor In­vest­ment Pro­gramme, works will con­tin­ue with the up­grad­ing of the ex­ist­ing ter­mi­nal build­ing and the con­struc­tion of a new ter­mi­nal build­ing with a car park at Crown Point.

Up­grades will al­so be done at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port and the ex­ist­ing air­port fa­cil­i­ty at Crown Point.

In fis­cal 2023, the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (AATT) will re­ceive the sum of $31.7 mil­lion to con­tin­ue up­grades in in­fra­struc­ture and se­cu­ri­ty works which will in­clude the fol­low­ing:

• com­ple­tion of the run­way and taxi­way pave­ment re­me­di­a­tion works at the Arthur Napoleon Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (AN­R­RIA) in To­ba­go as well as the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (PIA) in Trinidad for safe air­craft op­er­a­tions;

• con­tin­u­a­tion of re­pairs to the perime­ter fenc­ing at AN­R­RIA and PIA for en­hanced se­cu­ri­ty;

• up­grad­ing of the CCTV and ac­cess con­trol sys­tems at PIA and AN­R­RIA to meet the se­cu­ri­ty re­quire­ments of the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies;

• re­place­ment of air­field sig­nage with 38 LED signs for air­plane op­er­a­tions at PIA to com­ply with In­ter­na­tion­al Civ­il Avi­a­tion Or­gan­i­sa­tion (ICAO) reg­u­la­tions; and

• pro­cure­ment of two run­way sweep­ers for the PIA and AN­R­RIA for the re­moval of de­bris on the run­ways and taxi­ways for safe air­craft op­er­a­tions on the ground.

Mon­ey will al­so be al­lo­cat­ed for the up­grade of sea trans­porta­tion.

Re­sources to­talling $110.9 mil­lion will be al­lo­cat­ed to the Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go in fis­cal 2023 for the ex­e­cu­tion of de­vel­op­ment works which will in­clude the fol­low­ing:

• re­place­ment of three foam fend­ers -phase one for the Port of Port-of-Spain to pro­vide bet­ter berthing fa­cil­i­ty for car­go and pas­sen­ger ves­sels;

• ac­qui­si­tion of equip­ment (in­clud­ing trac­tor trucks and trail­ers) for in­creased op­er­a­tional ef­fi­cien­cy at the Port of Port-of-Spain;

• con­tin­u­a­tion of the re­pair/paving of the emp­ty con­tain­er yard to in­crease car­go han­dling ca­pac­i­ty and ef­fi­cien­cy at the Port of Port-of-Spain;

• pro­cure­ment of one ship-to-shore gantry crane to in­crease car­go han­dling ca­pac­i­ty and ef­fi­cien­cy at the Port of Port-of-Spain; and

• the re­fur­bish­ment of the CARI­COM wharf to in­crease the re­li­a­bil­i­ty of the berthing fa­cil­i­ties and re­duce moor­ing and car­go move­ment risks. Fur­ther­more, the Mar­itime Ser­vices Di­vi­sion of the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port will be pro­vid­ed an al­lo­ca­tion of $6.8 mil­lion to im­ple­ment works per­tain­ing to sea ves­sel traf­fic safe­ty and man­age­ment.

The Di­vi­sion will com­plete the project re­moval and dis­pos­al of wrecks and derelict ves­sels in the Gov­ern­ment Ship­ping Ser­vice Basin in the Port of Spain and Sea Lots ar­eas.