Port Research Manager Says Port Business Impacts the Entire Country

Rikki Lambey

Rikki Lambey, who is the Port’s Research and Training Manager, told News Five that this type of review is important because it has never been done before to capture the economic and social impacts of port activities. She adds that the findings will be shared with the government to implement necessary changes.

Rikki Lambey, Research & Training Manager, Belize Port Authority

“Maritime does account for ninety percent of trade. So it’s essential that we as a country start to improve our maritime system and we can’t improve if we don’t know what exists.”

Marion Ali

“So what’s going to be done with all the data coming out of this consultancy?”

Rikki Lambey

“Okay, the data there will be different deliverables. First of all, we’ll also do – they’ll do a SWOT analysis of B.P.A, our strength, our weaknesses, opportunities, and strength and they will show us how we can become a more modern and efficient port authority. They will also create this model that will allow us to predict If we do certain actions if we change a port system to behave in a different manner that will be more profitable. So the intention is to make us the entire country and entire maritime more efficient and more profitable because if we’re able to generate more jobs indirectly and directly that helps our economy. In reality, maritime and the port sector affects all of Belize. For example, while it might seem like ship directly, indirectly, the truckers, it might not seem as maritime, but those are job creation. The agriculture, if we start to export more of our goods, it’s done through maritime, so it helps us entirely as a country.”