Business View Caribbean | July 2019

34 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN JULY 2019 Business Products • Professional Services • Managed Services Product ive Business Solut ions (Barbados & the Eastern Caribbean) www.grouppbs.com Info.bb@grouppbs.com | (246) 417.5600 Productive Business Solutions (PBS) offers business and technology solutions throughout Central and South America as well as the Caribbean. PBS has exclusive distribution rights for Xerox in Central America, specific islands in the Caribbean, and Colombia making it one of the largest Xerox distributors in the Western Hemisphere. PBS maintains regional distribution rights with other world leading technology brands such as Cisco, Oracle, TrippLite and L3 in addition to country distribution with brands such as Fortinet, Engatel, HP, Dell, Lenovo, Entrust Datacard and Verifone. In the Eastern Caribbean region, PBS has implemented document management, network infrastructure, power management, financial and Identity solutions, as well as security detection solutions for ports and various private sector organizations. PBS delivers Cargo, Baggage and Passenger Scanning solutions across the region via its partner L3. Customers’ digital transformation, operational efficiency and cost management initiatives have been key drivers shaping PBS’s strategy across the region. PBS prides itself in being able to create and sustain winning long term relationships with its partners and clients. Improving the conditions of the people and communities in which the company operates is critical in its strategic plans; therefore, social responsibility activities also remain a major focus for 2019 and beyond. ...... For more information, please visit our website www.grouppbs.com administrative portion of the Terminal Reuse Plan, which would likely span over a three-to-four-year period. The Antigua and Barbuda government will lend funding support, but most will be done internally from ABAA’s own revenue. The company that developed the Terminal Reuse Plan are consultants from overseas and local and outside contractors will be used on the project. A concept of such magnitude will require many different entities to fulfill the plan. In other expansion news, the Airport Authority has taken over the cargo facility from the Ministry of Finance and will be renovating and signing agreements with the different stakeholders with respect to charging them fees for airport services. In addition to that, the catering company, Goddard – which has been servicing VC Bird for many years – is completing construction of a new catering facility. ABAA will take over the existing facility, with the view of developing it and also using a portion for cold storage of perishable items, such as fresh flowers and lobster. Antigua does have a large lobster trade in Europe, but because the island does not grow much food, or produce other goods, the cargo throughput coming in is greater than that going out. And passenger volume far exceeds the rather low cargo numbers. With respect to the terminal building, the passenger throughput is about 860,000 people per year, balanced between incoming and outgoing passengers.