Intensive training - warehousing, dangerous goods management
Caribbean Maritime Institute partners with PMAC and Barbados shipping sector
2015 October 1: A total of 38 participants from...
State-of-the-art technology and systems
2015, October 1: Haiti’s first Panamax port and the Caribbean’s newest world-standard marine container terminal began operations in June 2015. Port...
Seaport tariffs: Challenges to application, implications for the Caribbean
By Karen A. Adair *
>Seaport Tariffs - Challenges
This 3-part technical paper (serialised in Portside Caribbean journal,...
Economic, strategic benefits from variety reduction
If the machines do not work efficiently and well, all the time, the port is not dependable.
Regardless of how...
CARGO HANDLING EQUIPMENT:
Trusty machines serving well
By Mike Jarrett
2015 October 1: Caribbean ports face a real challenge of keeping aging cargo handling equipment working and...
Are your channels deep enough?
Larger feeder vessels are expected. Are your channels deep enough?
By Mike Jarrett
2015 June 1: Not all Caribbean ports will benefit...
Hot Potato! Weighing liability of Caribbean port operators
By Lowel Morgan *
There is, apparently, a great game of ‘hot potato’ being played in the shipping...
2015 June: A new chapter in Caribbean maritime history was started in Montego Bay Jamaica in mid-April 2015. Forty-seven women from 14 countries quietly converged on the Holiday Inn Sunspree hotel and for five days engaged in discussions about development, empowerment, capacity building and progress. When they emerged on April 17, the first pages of a new era in regional maritime development had been written.
2015 June: Overweight containers and incorrectly declared weight have been a problem for ports, shipping lines and others in the global supply chain since the beginning of the container revolution in 1956.
How to build a sustainable cruise port
THE IMPACT OF CRUISING ON THE CARIBBEAN
Growth in cruise traffic is usually perceived as positive. Growth in ship...
