Cost-cutting move may alter Harbours and Airport status

Saturday 17th September 2011, 2:57PM BST.

The Harbours and Airport Department could become a States-owned company

JERSEY’S Harbours and Airport department could be turned into a States-owned company to save costs.

Economic Development Minister Alan Maclean has commissioned a full business case for incorporating the Harbours and Airport, after a proposal by the shadow board that has been advising on policy affecting the two organisations.

He says that the board – chaired by former KPMG senior partner Charles Clarke, and including former Chief Minister Frank Walker and former Co-op chief executive Allan Smith – has recommended turning the two trading departments into a company.

See Saturday’s JEP for full report