Lamar establishes 'Center for Advances in Port Management'
2017, November 1: Lamar University in Texas has appointed industry expert Erik Stromberg the first Executive Director...
Suriname Port Management Company hosts crisis management course
2017, March 1: Twenty participants from eight organizations attended the three-day Crisis Management Course last October in...
… to start construction of FACT Centre
2017, March 1: On Tuesday January 24, 2017 Jamaica’s House of Representatives approved the ‘Caribbean Maritime University Bill...
Handling dangerous cargo, regulations and conventions
By Mike Jarrett
Those in the know may describe transport of harmful and volatile cargoes as the second most dangerous...
CARIBBEAN MARITIME INSTITUTE: Record enrollment and inching closer to university status
2016 February 1: The Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI) ended the year 2015 poised for...
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...
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 February: The pace of activity within the walls of the Caribbean Maritime Institute will increase significantly in the year ahead. Three red pins stand out among the others on the CMI’s 2015 calendar:
2015 February: The traditional approach to Caribbean productivity has been to focus primarily on upgrading equipment. Whereas this focus is in itself necessary, it is perhaps far more important to adopt a strategy which begins with a holistic integration of equipment, technology and human beings.
2015 February: As negotiations continue for the privatising of the Kingston Container Terminal (KCT), Jamaica’s largest, the company has made a public statement to reassure employees. The company said it was confident that appropriate disclosures will be made in a manner and at a time that does not prejudice the outcome of the negotiations and appealed for patience. There was no sign that the company’s reassurances calmed the employees who are anticipating massive layoffs and redundancies once the terms of the negotiations are disclosed.
