We’re going to get a bigger boat.
Transport Minister Stephen Cadiz announced yesterday that the Government will be leasing a new vessel to service the inter-island ferry route between Trinidad and Tobago to replace the downed Warrior Spirit.
The new vessel, sourced through a Spanish company from Gibraltar, is called the MV Superfast Galecia and is expected to arrive over the Easter weekend and will be in service in time for the Tobago Jazz Experience later this month.
The new vessel is 11 years old, Cadiz said, relatively young compared to the Warrior Spirit’s 34 years.
It is also bigger and has restroom facilities for the disabled, medical facilities and a prison cell.
It also travels at 22 knots, twice the speed of the Warrior Spirit.
Cadiz said the boat has been acquired for a 12-month lease at $48 million, $10 million less than the Warrior Spirit’s annual lease.