00:2580,000 vehicles use Risen Road daily.
00:28That's almost 3,300 vehicles per hour. Peak hours is as much as 6,000 vehicles moving along a two
00:37-mile stretch area.
00:38So, trucks may be coming to deliver an MT. That's a very fast transaction.
00:56Another truck may come to deliver an MT and pick up an import, or they may go to the scanning
01:01facility.
01:02So, it all depends on the duration of the process or the transaction that they are conducting on that day.
01:08But, ideally, majority of the containers are moved between 6 to 6 p.m.
01:21There are many implications if we were to consider closing the gate between that period to stop the trucks from
01:30leaving.
01:30And, also, this will account to a lot of congestion on our facilities because we need the trucks to be
01:36able to move.
01:37We don't have any storage space.
01:39So, if you shut down the port for three hours and you have 50 trucks there, where are the trucks
01:44going to be staying?
01:45So, those are some of the implications that we would have considered, and also the possible cost to the business
01:51community
01:51because a haulier is not going to pack up a truck for three hours and not charge some kind of
01:56cost.
02:21So, let's see.
02:26We need to move to a state where we fully adopt a port community system because what a port community
02:35system does,
02:36it removes the need for foot traffic, and this traffic is now done digitally.
02:41So, you're going to reduce all of that traversing from the different agencies, one.
02:45We also need to amalgamate a hub, trade hub.
02:50So, where you have customs, you have immigrations, you have port personnel in one area.
02:54So, if somebody has to come face-to-face to come to visit an agency for specialized, of course, you
03:00don't want heavy traffic.
03:01This is just in cases where you have situations that may be challenging to solve digitally.
03:06You have all these agencies into one hub where, and it can be located outside of Port of Port of
03:13Spain.
03:39So, here we go.
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