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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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PMAC 29th Annual General Meeting – Who Will Finance the Caribbean’s Port Transition ?

The European Union, DFC and regional institutions are opening new pathways to capital. But Caribbean ports must first turn their modernisation and decarbonisation ambitions into credible, measurable and bankable projects....

PMAC 29th Annual General Meeting – Who Will Finance the Caribbean’s Port Transition ?

The European Union, DFC and regional institutions are opening new pathways to capital. But Caribbean ports must first

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sensors, AI and Connected Containers: A Practical Smart-Port Path for the Caribbean?

Artificial intelligence can turn container images into inspection records, while connected sensors follow cargo beyond the port gate. But a ...

Trinidad and Tobago tops the 2026 NovaPort Cup as French overseas ports fill the next three places

The Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago has won the 2026 NovaPort Cup, finishing ahead of the Grand Port Maritime ...

One Ship Clearance Across the OECS: Building a Digital Maritime Corridor

The OECS is considering a digital corridor that could allow a vessel cleared in one participating port to continue through ...

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Exploring the maritime ecosystem shaping trade, mobility and blue economy across the Caribbean and Latin America

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 ...

PMAC 29th Annual General Meeting – Who Will Finance the Caribbean’s Port Transition ?

The European Union, DFC and regional institutions are opening new pathways to capital. But Caribbean ports must first turn their ...

Caribbean ports move toward a common environmental framework

Environmental performance is becoming a strategic priority for Caribbean ports, but measuring progress consistently across the region has remained a ...

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CMA CGM and MSC tighten their grip on Port of Spain ’s container traffic

Two global shipping groups dominated container activity at Port of Spain in 2025, reinforcing the concentration trends shaping Caribbean liner ...

Cruise Executives Are Sending a Clear Warning on Taxes and Passenger Fees

Across the Caribbean and Latin America, discussions around cruise passenger taxes and port fees appear to be entering a more ...

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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 ...

Cruise demand remains resilient despite geopolitical uncertainty, Carnival’s latest results suggest

Geopolitical uncertainty, elevated fuel costs and shifting travel patterns continue to shape the operating environment for global cruise operators. Yet ...

MSC turns Caribbean culture into a competitive advantage aboard MSC World Europa

As cruise lines compete for market share in the world’s busiest cruise region, differentiation is no longer driven solely by ...

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Caribbean schooner

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 ...

MV Barima Disaster Puts Guyana’s Ferry Safety and Hinterland Connectivity Under Scrutiny

At least ten bodies have been recovered after the MV Barima capsized off Guyana’s coast, as an expanding search operation ...

Caribbean port strength comes with growing network exposure

The Caribbean remains one of the most strategically important container spaces in Latin America and the Caribbean. Several of the ...

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Why authenticity may become the Caribbean ’s strongest cruise advantage

Across the Caribbean, destinations continue investing in port infrastructure, terminal upgrades and visitor facilities to accommodate growing cruise traffic. Yet ...

Caribbean Cruise Destinations Are Increasingly Competing as Brands

For decades, Caribbean cruise competition was largely shaped by geography, climate and itinerary logistics. Ports competed for ship calls, destinations ...

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Seatrade Cruise Global 2026. Redefining luxury at sea: how Aman is shaping the ultra-luxury yachting segment

At Seatrade Cruise Global, much of the discussion around cruise development continues to focus on scale, demand and destination strategy. ...

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Exploring the maritime ecosystem shaping trade, mobility and blue economy across the Caribbean and Latin America

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 ...

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 ...

Trinidad and Tobago tops the 2026 NovaPort Cup as French overseas ports fill the next three places

The Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago has won the 2026 NovaPort Cup, finishing ahead of the Grand Port Maritime ...

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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 ...

Sensors, AI and Connected Containers: A Practical Smart-Port Path for the Caribbean?

Artificial intelligence can turn container images into inspection records, while connected sensors follow cargo beyond the port gate. But a ...

One Ship Clearance Across the OECS: Building a Digital Maritime Corridor

The OECS is considering a digital corridor that could allow a vessel cleared in one participating port to continue through ...

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