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Port Management
Port Management
Port Operations oversees the day-to-day management of the pier and its operations at the Reynolds Pier. This includes:
- Berthing of cargo, cruise, navy and oil vessels;
- Dry Docking for small pleasure and fishing boats;
- Leasing of fuel tanks to facilitate bunkering;
- Short-term equipment rental (forklifts, re-loader, bobcats);
- Facilitating export of bulk sugar, high purity limestone and aggregates through the use of our conveyor system;
- Facilitating staging of limestone and aggregates portside and storage of bulk sugar in the silo; and
- Selling potable water to cargo and passenger vessels
Berthing
Reynolds Pier is 274.3 metres long with a recommended vessel draft of 12.2 metres. Cruise ships are given berthing priority and generally arrive Mondays through Thursdays. The Port offers berthing for:
- Cruise Liners
- Cargo ships/Barge (limestone, sugar and washed aggregate)
- Navy Ships
- Oil Ships
- Yachts
- Research Vessel
Shipping
The Reynolds Pier facilitates the loading of cargo vessels for the shipment of bulk limestone and sugar. Sugar ships are normally given berthing priority over limestone ships.
Dry Docking
The Port offers the only dry dock facility along the North Coast corridor and facilitates small pleasure boats (catamarans), small fishing boats and fire boats. The facility accommodates the launching/re-launching of vessels for maintenance and servicing. Lifting capacity is approximately 40 tonnes.
Service Vessels
Reynolds Pier offers some services exclusively to the vessels that berth at the pier; this enhances our value preposition to the many stakeholders we serve. Some of the services we offer include:
- Supply of high quality fresh water to all vessels when required
- Providing competent lines men for securing and berthing ships to pier
- Agency services for the facilitation of pilot boat and shipper agent
- Facilitating the disposal of garbage from ships
Scale Services
The Company has a fully automated electronic scale, with an accuracy and repeatability of ±10%. The scale is calibrated annually by the Bureau of Standards Jamaica. In addition to providing weighing services for bulk sugar export, the Company also accommodates weighing of trucks transporting scrap metals and bulk rum.
Oil Bunkering
The Company facilitates bunkering and de-bunkering of Heavy Fuel Oil and Marine Fuel Oil. The two bunker fuel (bunker C) storage tanks have storage capacities of 1,263,511 gallons and 1,381,881 gallons.
Equipment Rental
JBM offers equipment rental at the Port for vessels being loaded on the pier in addition to other rentals not related to the port’s operations. These include:
- Front End Loader
- Gangway (Brow)
- Skid Steer
- Forklift
- Crane
