China will deliver new ferries before year-end

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China will deliver new ferries before year-end - Ambassador Yu

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Saturday, 10 September 2011 01:25
Source - Guyana Chronicle

CHINESE Ambassador to Guyana, Mr. Yu Wenzhe disclosed, on Wednesday, that the two roll on/roll off ferries, being built for this country, are to be completed by the end of October and delivered before year-end.

Speaking to the Guyana Chronicle at the Homestretch Avenue, Georgetown studios of the National Communications Network (NCN), he said: “I was told that the construction, according to the schedule, will be finished by the end of October. We have already got the names of the two vessels. They are Amerindian names.

“We will get a big boat to bring the two ferries to the Caribbean and we are discussing, with the Government, how to bring them here, once they get there.”

The diplomat said it is necessary to find a deep water harbour in the Caribbean to accommodate the large vessel that will bring the two ferries from China upon their completion.

He said he was not sure whether the ferries will be larger in size than the Transport and Harbours Department current fleet, but assured that they would be more modern.

“My understanding is that, once they are here, they will be plying the Essequibo River and relieve some of the older ferries to benefit the people of Region 2,” the envoy said.

Meanwhile, Government is in the process of upgrading the Parika and Good Hope stellings, on the East Bank Essequibo and Essequibo Coast, respectively, to accommodate the ferries.

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MitwahSenior Member

What became of Guyana's ship building capacity. I recall the Torani was built at Sprostons. No?

9/11/118:17 AM

Former Member

quote:
Originally posted by Mitwah:
What became of Guyana's ship building capacity. I recall the Torani was built at Sprostons. No?

Between the PPP and PNC they took Guyana back to pre-independence dependency. GAC is also gone so the Trinis could kick us in the face as they wish.

9/11/118:23 AM

TK_REDUX (Guest)

quote:
Originally posted by Mitwah:
What became of Guyana's ship building capacity. I recall the Torani was built at Sprostons. No?

The PPP=PNC prefer a subsistence economy. A ship building industry does not fit in with the picture of subsistence of the masses but richness for a few connected to the narco-capitalism of the PPP.

9/11/118:39 AM

Bookman (Guest)

quote:
Originally posted by Mitwah:
What became of Guyana's ship building capacity. I recall the Torani was built at Sprostons. No?

The Torani was built in Glasgow. Its sister vessels Makouria and Malali were built by Sprostons. Premier Cheddi Jagan had insisted on that.

9/11/119:22 AM

TK_REDUX (Guest)

quote:
Originally posted by Bookman:
quote:
Originally posted by Mitwah:
What became of Guyana's ship building capacity. I recall the Torani was built at Sprostons. No?

The Torani was built in Glasgow. Its sister vessels Makouria and Malali were built by Sprostons. Premier Cheddi Jagan had insisted on that.

The old Cheddi understood these things. That is why he got people like Nicholas Kaldor involved early on. The 1992 Cheddi did not emphasize these things.

9/11/119:36 AM

Mr.TI pity the fool

So Jagdeo provides job opportunities to the Chinese whilst Guyanese workers remain unemployed.

9/11/119:51 AM

Former Member

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.T:
So Jagdeo provides job opportunities to the Chinese whilst Guyanese workers remain unemployed.

Long live the PPP. Guyanese will remain the cane cutters and grease monkeys while the Chinese run the operations at Skeldon. Isn't that what we used to cuss about Bookers?

9/11/119:54 AM

TK_REDUX (Guest)

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.T:
So Jagdeo provides job opportunities to the Chinese whilst Guyanese workers remain unemployed.

Yep...the Chinese also sent their own labor when they built the convention Center in Turkeyen. No strategic planning...

9/11/119:54 AM

TK_REDUX (Guest)

quote:
Originally posted by baseman:
quote:
Originally posted by Mr.T:
So Jagdeo provides job opportunities to the Chinese whilst Guyanese workers remain unemployed.

Long live the PPP. Guyanese will remain the cane cutters and grease monkeys while the Chinese run the operations at Skeldon. Isn't that what we used to cuss about Bookers?

yep...it is the new south-south imperialism.

9/11/119:56 AM

cainTired old hippie

Is this the same type of ferry that recently capsized?

9/11/1111:06 AM

MitwahSenior Member

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.T:
So Jagdeo provides job opportunities to the Chinese whilst Guyanese workers remain unemployed.

Indeed! Indeed!

You might recall Cipriani built a boat from scratch which was eventually used to fetch rocks from the quaries for Toolsi Persaud.

I know when Torani used to go to sprostons for 'dry dock' cleaning and preventive maintenance.

Guyana is fast becoming a colony of the Chinese.

9/11/1111:47 AM

Former Member

Which arm did we mortgage to the bloodsuckers to get those boats?

9/11/1112:33 PM

DjangoAdmin

quote:
Originally posted by TK_REDUX:
quote:
Originally posted by Bookman:
quote:
Originally posted by Mitwah:
What became of Guyana's ship building capacity. I recall the Torani was built at Sprostons. No?

The Torani was built in Glasgow. Its sister vessels Makouria and Malali were built by Sprostons. Premier Cheddi Jagan had insisted on that.

The old Cheddi understood these things. That is why he got people like Nicholas Kaldor involved early on. The 1992 Cheddi did not emphasize these things.

Nationalization of industries was bad for Guyana.

9/11/1112:41 PM

Mr.TI pity the fool

quote:
Originally posted by Mitwah:
Guyana is fast becoming a colony of the Chinese.

Let's pause for a second and contemplate the future that awaits The People's Republic of Guyana.

9/11/111:12 PM

Former Member

quote:
Originally posted by Mitwah:
What became of Guyana's ship building capacity. I recall the Torani was built at Sprostons. No?

http://www.guyanachronicleonli...of-the-choppy-waters

Consistency
Every passenger ferry that plies the Essequibo, Demerara and Berbice Rivers, and those that traverse the Atlantic Ocean and rivers to ferry passengers, equipment and goods into remote interior regions, has spent time in the large GNIC dry dock undergoing major and minor repairs and reconstruction.
The MV Torani was actually built in this same shipyard, and handed over, spanking new, to the T&HD in October 1960. This one is touted as the largest shipbuilding job ever to have been undertaken in British Guiana, and in Guyana’s more recent history. More than 300 men worked on this 172 ft x 37.5 ft vessel. The main deck was designed by Messrs. Ferguson Brothers of Port Glasgow, Scotland in the 1950s, and history has it that it was this same Scottish shipbuilder who constructed the Torani’s sister ship, the MV Makouria.
The history of GNIC goes back more than 150 years to the colonial era, when the company was owned by a private Scottish entrepreneur, Messr. Hugh Sprostons, an international shipbuilding and ship repair specialist.

9/11/112:19 PM

MitwahSenior Member

quote:
Originally posted by André:
quote:
Originally posted by Mitwah:
What became of Guyana's ship building capacity. I recall the Torani was built at Sprostons. No?

http://www.guyanachronicleonli...of-the-choppy-waters

Consistency
Every passenger ferry that plies the Essequibo, Demerara and Berbice Rivers, and those that traverse the Atlantic Ocean and rivers to ferry passengers, equipment and goods into remote interior regions, has spent time in the large GNIC dry dock undergoing major and minor repairs and reconstruction.
The MV Torani was actually built in this same shipyard, and handed over, spanking new, to the T&HD in October 1960. This one is touted as the largest shipbuilding job ever to have been undertaken in British Guiana, and in Guyana’s more recent history. More than 300 men worked on this 172 ft x 37.5 ft vessel. The main deck was designed by Messrs. Ferguson Brothers of Port Glasgow, Scotland in the 1950s, and history has it that it was this same Scottish shipbuilder who constructed the Torani’s sister ship, the MV Makouria.
The history of GNIC goes back more than 150 years to the colonial era, when the company was owned by a private Scottish entrepreneur, Messr. Hugh Sprostons, an international shipbuilding and ship repair specialist.

Thanks Andre.

Bookman please note the main deck was built in Glascow. Nationalization took a toll on foreign investments. We saw after independence, even the local businessmen and the elites were moving their wealth out of Guyana. This is still happening but the impact on the economy is being offset with remittances and barrels.

GNIC has been known always for its capacity to build and repair oceangoing and riverine vessels in large and small dry docks located some 1.2km from the Atlantic Ocean. Coastal trawlers, transport vessels, passenger ferries, tugs, pontoons, suction and hopper barges, and launches are only some of the multitude of maritime vessels that bear the distinctive mark of the well-tested skills of GNIC’s technicians and engineers.

So why did the PPP not create jobs in Guyana by building these ships?

9/12/118:05 AM

Mr.TI pity the fool

Vote PPP for a better future for the Chinese.

9/12/1110:01 AM

warrior (Guest)

can we take some of these ferries and bring some people backtrack i know some of the governmnet ministers will want to come because they visa cancle and the police will not stop us because green will try to come too his visa is cancle this is good business

9/12/112:30 PM

TK_REDUX (Guest)

quote:
Originally posted by warrior:
can we take some of these ferries and bring some people backtrack i know some of the governmnet ministers will want to come because they visa cancle and the police will not stop us because green will try to come too his visa is cancle this is good business

9/12/112:33 PM

TolaSenior Member

If building the Skeldon factory by the Chinese is any track record, betta wait for a while to sail on the ferry. You nevva know if it will breakdown or sink.

9/12/1111:03 PM

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