Mike Jarrett - Portside Caribbean

CIP: Improved disaster risk management for Caribbean ports

Improved disaster risk management for Caribbean ports 2020 December 01: Record-breaking hurricane activity in the Atlantic during 2020 emphasised the timeliness and urgency of the Improved Disaster Ri

Climate Change: record-breaking hurricane season in 2020

Record-breaking hurricane season in 2020 2020 December 01: Somewhat overshadowed by a global pandemic, the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was as devastating as any and more so than many. The U.S. Nati

Port of Bridgetown takes PMAC top award in 2020

2020 December 01: Port of Bridgetown was named the Port Management Association of the Caribbean’s (PMAC) Novaport Cup winner for 2020. The Port of Bridgetown won PMAC’s top award from a field of nine

A YEAR LIKE NO OTHER: Pandemic notwithstanding, global ports report stability, growth

A YEAR LIKE NO OTHER: Pandemic notwithstanding, global ports report stability, growth 2020 December 01: As this ‘year like no other’ entered its final weeks, a majority of the world’s cargo ports were

A YEAR LIKE NO OTHER: Special report 2020

2020 - A year like no other Presidential elections in the USA helped in no small measure to make 2020 a year like no other. The world’s communications media - public and social - garnered as much publ

STRANDED AT SEA: ICS sounds alarm – seafarers must be made ‘Key Workers’

2020 October 01: The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), on International Day of the Seafarer (June 25, 2020) sounded the alarm about the plight of seafarers. And, within a week, posted on its w

A YEAR LIKE NO OTHER: Port activity during COVID-19

Port activity during COVID-19 - cruise hit hard, cargo…not so much 2020 October 1: Not many saw it coming and no one could have planned for it. In a matter of a few short months, the world was near pa

GLOBAL TRADE: Should the Caribbean be concerned?

... concern that the rapid global expansion and gains in alleviation of poverty from which the Caribbean and other former European colonies benefited could be halted by a return to protectionism here

Stranded at Sea: Human rights, contracts and the law during a pandemic

By Deniece M. Aiken * 2020, October 1: Governments should heed the call to protect their nationals at sea by officially according their seafarers ‘key worker’ status. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19

STRANDED AT SEA: Seafarers ‘stuck at sea’ a threat to global stability

STRANDED AT SEA: Seafarers ‘stuck at sea’ a threat to global stability Make them global-essential ‘Key Workers’ 2020 October 01: As the sun rose on World Maritime Day 2020, the fate of almost one mill

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