The B&R Group of companies had its beginnings in 1919 as J.W. Tatem & Co., in the town of San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, providing steamship agency and stevedoring services to the sugar trade and general cargo liner traffic in that part of the island. Today, B&R is thirteen companies and over four hundred people in a diversified marine services group doing business in the Dominican Republic.

The B&R Group of companies had its beginnings in 1919 as J.W. Tatem & Co., in the town of San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, providing steamship agency and stevedoring services to the sugar trade and general cargo liner traffic in that part of the island. Today, B&R is thirteen companies and over four hundred people in a diversified marine services group doing business in the Dominican Republic.