Grenada Ports Authority

Business View Magazine 3 the Port of St. George’s – stretches back for centuries. “Down the years, there has always been motivation for developing the port and attracting commercial ship calls – and that is still the case today,” said Ian Evans, the authority’s port manager. The island’s original colony, Port Louis, was created by French settlers in an area on the east side of what is now St. George's Harbour. There were deep-water an- chorages for oceangoing ships. Port Louis was aban- doned in 1700 and Port Royal was established where St. George's is today, but vessels continued to anchor in the eastern part of the harbor, near what is now the lagoon, until volcanic activity in 1867 transformed the deep water into a shallow area just a few feet deep. From then on, the development of port facilities was focused on the western harbor.

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