Shipping Association of Barbados
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The Shipping Association of Barbados (SAB) is the national shipping
institution
of Barbados
with its headquarters in Bridgetown
. Formed in 1981, the association consists primarily of ship members and stevedore companies who meet on a monthly basis to discuss common problems, share information on new technology and to analyse trends in the market place. As the voice of shipping in Barbados, the SAB seeks also to provide a forum of consultation for members to ascertain their views on shipping in the island and also to collect and circulate statistical information on the subject. SAB is a wider member of the Caribbean Shipping Association (CSA) where shipping policies are discussed with neighbour Dutch, French and Spanish speaking states in the Caribbean
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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...
institution
Institution
An institution is any structure or mechanism of social order and cooperation governing the behavior of a set of individuals within a given human community...
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...
with its headquarters in 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...
. Formed in 1981, the association consists primarily of ship members and stevedore companies who meet on a monthly basis to discuss common problems, share information on new technology and to analyse trends in the market place. As the voice of shipping in Barbados, the SAB seeks also to provide a forum of consultation for members to ascertain their views on shipping in the island and also to collect and circulate statistical information on the subject. SAB is a wider member of the Caribbean Shipping Association (CSA) where shipping policies are discussed with neighbour Dutch, French and Spanish speaking states in the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
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