Barbados

TRANSPORT FACT SHEET

1. COUNTRY: Barbados
2. CAPITAL: Bridgetown
3. GDP GROWTH RATE: -.1%
4. MAJOR COMMERCIAL CITIES: Speighstown, Oistins, Bathsheba.
5. MAJOR INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS: Sir Grantley Adams International Airport, located in Christ Church.
6. MAJOR SEAPORTS: Bridgetown, Saint Michael (Deep Water Harbour), and in Speightstown, St. Peter (the Port Charles Marina). These are regulated by the Barbados Port Authority. Large cruise ships dock at the Deep Water Harbour at the southwestern end of the island.
7.  RAIL AND ROADWAYS:  A. B. C. Highway (Adams/Barrow/Cummins),
8. EXPORT GOODS: manufactures, sugar, molasses, rum, other foodstuffs and beverages, chemicals, electrical components
9. EXPORT PARTNERS: US, China, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Jamaica, St.Lucia
10. IMPORT GOODS: consumer goods, machinery, foodstuffs, construction materials, chemicals, fuel, electrical components
11. IMPORT PARTNERS: US, UK, China, Trinidad and Tobago