St. John's under major development
2017, March 1: Antigua and Barbuda is engaged in major improvement and expansion of the country’s cruise port facilities. Last...
Caribbean Development Bank investing in infrastructure
… in better position to mobilise special climate finance resources
The end of 2016 saw the Caribbean, like much of...
Working towards a TsunamiReady Caribbean
Is your port ready for a tsunami?
In March 2016, over 330,000 people in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions took...
Prepare for disaster with Oil Spill Contingency Planning
By Jesper Goodley Dannisøe and Jan Sierhuis
Oil in the sea can be disastrous especially for living organism...
Harbour Resilience: Understanding the ‘harbour wave’
By Patrick Lynett *
Tsunami is a Japanese word meaning “harbour wave.”
Although impacts of tsunamis are felt throughout coastal areas,...
Major expansion at Nieuwe Haven facility
Container yard space expansion of 20,0002m
Container handling capability increased
New port IT system to be acquired
2016, February...
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,...
2015 February: When Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller and her Ministers made themselves personally available to potential business investors in March of this year, they were expected to know everything about the potential of Jamaica’s logistics sector. As one advisory noted: “...it will be a key industry focus at JIF 2015.”
2015 February: On the first day of 2015, the fledgling Port Authority of French Guiana celebrated its second anniversary but, it was already well into one of the largest ever port development projects the country has so far witnessed.
JAMAICA Logistics Hub Planned Development
2015 February 1: The Jamaica Logistics Hub Initiative is in an advance state of preparation. As planned and projected, it...
