Barbados Port Authority
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The Barbados Port Incorporated (BPI) is an agency of the government
of Barbados
which principally regulates shipping
into the island, and controls immigration into Barbados in the capital of Bridgetown
. Established in 1979 as the Barbados Port Authority (BPA) it was then set up as a statutory body to plan, build, develop and maintain the port to a high standard. As part of the government's reform policy the port authority was renamed Barbados Port Inc. in 2003.
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
of Barbados
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...
which principally regulates shipping
Shipping
Shipping has multiple meanings. It can be a physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo, by land, air, and sea. It also can describe the movement of objects by ship.Land or "ground" shipping can be by train or by truck...
into the island, and controls immigration into Barbados in the capital of Bridgetown
Bridgetown
The city of Bridgetown , metropolitan pop 96,578 , is the capital and largest city of the nation of Barbados. Formerly, the Town of Saint Michael, the Greater Bridgetown area is located within the parish of Saint Michael...
. Established in 1979 as the Barbados Port Authority (BPA) it was then set up as a statutory body to plan, build, develop and maintain the port to a high standard. As part of the government's reform policy the port authority was renamed Barbados Port Inc. in 2003.