WISCO Sugar Loading Pier (Savanna-la-Mar)

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Brown raw sugar from the sugar factory in Frome is shipped from here.

Conveyed by dump trucks from the factory it is loaded, into lighters to be towed out across the shallow harbour to a freighter anchored off-shore. Until recently, when competition in the world market made bulk loading essential, the sugar was bagged at the factory and loaded in that form. During the crop season, from January to June or July, there is a constant stream of trucks from the factory, and their manoeuvring and the shedding of dark cascades of sugar into the waiting barges goes on under arc lights far into the nights, when off and on the flashing light of the harbour buoy shows up a tug with its train of lighters, or the dug-out canoes of local fishermen slipping out to sea with their bamboo fish traps. Adapted from www.golocaljamaica.com/readarticle.php?ArticleID=805