The port is moving to add to increase is size with the construction of a new building.
"Today, the terminal is around four times its original physical size of some 12 hectares, with three times as many cranes and more than 12 times as many team members with payroll expanded around $3M to as high as $31M annually," Smith said.
His comments came at a dedication ceremony for its new amenities building, which was named in memory of the late Gregory Rodgers.
CEO Gary Gilbert noted that the building is the heart of FCP operations.
"As we look to the future, we are hopefully going to see this place doubled as we also bring in the mega ships from MSC, our great partner. We are so fortunate to have 56 feet of water making us the deepest harbor in the hemisphere. This is a wonderful thing."
Prior to the construction of the building, employees had to work from different locations on the FCP property, at times utilizing trailers to get the job done. The new structure now allows the divisions of the company to be under one roof.
Human Resources Director Malvese Capron said the company took into consideration that not only did its employees need more room to work, but more room was also necessary for partners like the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Bahamas Customs and Immigration, US Customs and Immigration, the Department of Energy, and its Customers.
"We did not just need more physical space, we needed more secure space with technological capabilities," Capron said. "Within these walls, we have all that and more. This new facility and the team members, who spend most of their waking hours in it, hold the potential to create an even greater payoff of a broadly-based rise in working standards over the longer run."
