Port Antonio Marina Project

The component of the project included: -

a) Marina

• Building including shops, office, toilet, etc.
• External works, including roads, carports, etc.

b) Boatyards

• Building including office space, stores toilet etc.
• External works including guard house, sewage disposal landscaping etc.

c) Renovations and extension to existing Ken Wright Pier facilities

d) Board walk

e) Land Reclamation and shore protection

f) Roadworks

g) Relocation of National Works Agency Area Office

h) Police Post

Financing

The project was financed by the Port Authority of Jamaica through a loan from the Danish Export Credit Agency – Eksport Kredit Fonden. 

      Loan Amount      -      US$9,775,000.00

      Loan Period       -      10 years plus disbursement period 

Contractor

The Port Authority’s Consultants Wallace Evans (Ja.) Ltd., Alberga Graham Jamaica and Goldson Barrett Johnson recommended that the Contract be awarded to E. Pihl and Son A.S. in the sum of United States Nine Million, Three Hundred and Thirty Six Thousand, Eight Hundred and Sixty Eight Dollars (US$9,336,868.00).  The contract commenced on July 16, 2001 and the completion date was set for July 22, 2002.

The Port Antonio Marina was officially opened on September 12, 2002.