CARIB Brewery equipment transport to cause traffic delays on Sunday

CARIB Brew­ery (Trinidad and To­ba­go) Lim­it­ed will trans­port spe­cialised brew­ing equip­ment from the Port of Port-of-Spain to its Champs Fleurs fa­cil­i­ty on Sun­day, and mo­torists are be­ing warned to ex­pect tem­po­rary traf­fic re­stric­tions and de­lays along the route.

In a state­ment is­sued to­day, the com­pa­ny said the equip­ment was part of its on­go­ing in­vest­ment in strength­en­ing lo­cal pro­duc­tion ca­pa­bil­i­ties, im­prov­ing man­u­fac­tur­ing process­es and en­hanc­ing op­er­a­tional ef­fi­cien­cy.

The com­pa­ny said the over­sized load is ex­pect­ed to move at a con­trolled, re­duced speed, with sup­port from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to man­age traf­fic and en­sure the safe move­ment of the equip­ment.

CARIB Brew­ery said Sun­day was se­lect­ed to min­imise dis­rup­tion to com­muters and oth­er road users.

How­ev­er, mo­torists and pub­lic trans­porta­tion op­er­a­tors have been ad­vised to plan their jour­neys ac­cord­ing­ly and use al­ter­na­tive routes where pos­si­ble.

The trans­port is sched­uled to be­gin at the Port of Port-of-Spain at 6 am, with the con­voy ex­pect­ed to reach the Beetham High­way at about 10 am, the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route at 2 pm and the brew­ery at Champs Fleurs at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 4 pm.

The com­pa­ny cau­tioned that the times are es­ti­mates and may change de­pend­ing on road and traf­fic con­di­tions, op­er­a­tional re­quire­ments and the move­ment of oth­er road users.

The des­ig­nat­ed route will in­clude sec­tions of the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route. Mem­bers of the pub­lic have been urged to ex­er­cise pa­tience and cau­tion when ap­proach­ing the con­voy, avoid at­tempt­ing to over­take the equip­ment or con­voy, and fol­low in­struc­tions from po­lice of­fi­cers and traf­fic-man­age­ment per­son­nel.

The equip­ment will be trans­port­ed by Para­mount Trans­port and Trad­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed, which CARIB Brew­ery de­scribed as an ex­pe­ri­enced part­ner in mov­ing spe­cialised and over­sized loads.

The com­pa­ny said the two or­gan­i­sa­tions had pre­vi­ous­ly un­der­tak­en a sim­i­lar op­er­a­tion in 2012, when large brew­ing tanks were trans­port­ed to the brew­ery. That move­ment was com­plet­ed suc­cess­ful­ly and with­out in­ci­dent, it added