Puerto Antioquia and the New Geography of Colombia’s Reefer Exports
A refrigerated container’s journey does not begin at the quay. For bananas, avocados and other fresh produce, every kilometre between the packing facility and the vessel adds time, road exposure and pressure on the cold chain. That is what makes Puerto Antioquia more than a conventional port-capacity story. Now operational on Colombia’s Caribbean coast in […]
PMAC – 29GA- Marine Pilotage : The strategic skill ports too often overlook
A port can invest in deeper berths, new cranes, digital platforms and larger terminals. But none of those assets creates value until a vessel can reach the quay safely. At the PMAC Annual General Meeting in Paramaribo, marine pilotage emerged as one of the less visible — but potentially most strategic — capabilities behind Caribbean […]
More cruise passengers are coming. Who captures the spend ?
The Caribbean/Bahamas/Bermuda remained the world’s largest cruise destination region in 2025, welcoming 16.27 million cruise passengers, up 8.4% from 15.01 million a year earlier. That meant more than 1.25 million additional visitors in a single year, with 44% of global cruise passengers sailing in the region. For Caribbean ports, that growth creates an obvious opportunity. […]
From Connectivity to Capital: What Will It Take to Turn Caribbean Opportunities into Investment?
As the Caribbean Investment Forum 2026 prepares to return to Barbados, a central question is emerging for the region: not whether investment opportunities exist, but whether the Caribbean can build the scale, infrastructure and investment-ready projects needed to compete for increasingly selective global capital. BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS — The Caribbean investment landscape has no shortage of […]
PMAC – 29GA- Food Security and Disaster Response: The Overlooked Role of Caribbean Schoone
When major shipping services are disrupted, the smallest vessels can become some of the most important. Across the Caribbean, schooners and small inter-island freighters continue to connect farmers, traders and island markets — while also providing a form of logistical resilience that becomes most visible during a crisis. After Hurricane Luis struck Saint-Martin in 1995, […]
Panama Links ISO Recertification to Broader Ship Registry Performance Push
Panama’s Directorate General of Merchant Marine has renewed the ISO 9001:2015 certification of its Quality Management System as the country works to strengthen the performance, accessibility and regulatory credibility of its international ship registry. The recertification was awarded by Bureau Veritas following an external audit, according to the Panama Maritime Authority. Announced on August 6, […]
FCCA opens registration for 2026 cruise conference in San Juan
The Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association has opened registration for its 32nd Annual Cruise Conference & Trade Show, scheduled to take place from October 12 to 16, 2026, at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan. The event is expected to bring together ports, destinations, tourism authorities, tour operators, suppliers and other businesses seeking direct access […]
PMAC – 29GA- Three Apprentices, Six Weeks: PMAC Invests in Maritime Talent
Three young people will spend six weeks moving through three parts of the maritime chain: a shipping company, a port and one of the carrier’s customers. The programme is modest in scale, but it addresses a wider Caribbean challenge—how to attract new talent to an industry that many young people rarely see or understand. Ships […]
Latin America Sets a Common Course for Maritime Cooperation
Latin American maritime administrations have adopted their first common regional agenda for technical cooperation, opening the way to closer coordination on regulatory capacity, institutional development and the implementation of international maritime standards. The agreement was reached during the First Joint Meeting of Directors and Heads of Maritime Administrations of Latin America, known as DAMLA 1, […]
PMAC – 29GA- Standardising KPIs: The data that brings ports and shipping lines together
Caribbean ports already measure productivity. The problem is that they do not always measure it in the same way. For shipping lines operating across several terminals, that makes comparison difficult and reduces the value of the data collected. Two ports may report indicators carrying the same name while relying on different methods or operational contexts. […]
French Guiana: Turning the Port into a Driver of Production and Exports
In conversation with Stéphane Tant, Chairman of the Management Board and Chief Executive Officer, and Michaël Nicolas, Director of Strategy and Development at the Grand Port Maritime de la Guyane. Cargo traffic at the Grand Port Maritime de la Guyane continues to grow steadily. Yet this growth, largely driven by the territory’s domestic needs, is […]
How the Caribbean is strengthening its voice in global shipping decarbonization
The Caribbean depends heavily on maritime transport, yet the region has not always had the technical capacity or coordinated representation required to influence the international rules shaping shipping’s energy transition. That gap is now being addressed through the UWI-Caribbean Shipping Lanes Project (UWI-CSL), an initiative examined in Issue 57 of Caribbean Maritime, the official journal […]