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Maritime Routes and Logistical Platforms in the Greater Caribbean

Maritime Routes and Logistical Platforms in the Greater Caribbean. Challenges and Opportunities for Martinique Pr Jean CRUSOL REGIONAL COUNCIL MARTINIQUE. THE GREATER CARIBBEAN. Total land erea : 2 M Km2 Sea erea : 3 M Km2 Strategic location between North and South America

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Maritime Routes and Logistical Platforms in the Greater Caribbean

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  1. Maritime Routes and LogisticalPlatforms in the GreaterCaribbean Challenges and Opportunities for Martinique Pr Jean CRUSOL REGIONAL COUNCIL MARTINIQUE

  2. THE GREATER CARIBBEAN Total land erea: 2 M Km2 Seaerea : 3 M Km2 Strategic location betweenNorth and South America between Atlantic and Pacific oceans Panama Canal: Trade: 300 M tons >50% intra USA

  3. MAIN MARITIME ROUTES IN THE CARIBBEAN • Total Transshipment 2010: 7 Million containers • Canal extension : 2015 • Shipscapacity: from 5000 to 12 000 (15 000) • Growthuntill 2025: 11 M (plus 4 M) • Saturation of existing ports

  4. MAIN LOGISTIC PORTS IN THE CARIBBEAN • Kingston: >1000 000 • RioHaina-Punta Causedo: >500 000 • Freeport: >1000 000 • Cartagena : 450 000 • Port of Spain: 350 000 • Martinique : < 150000

  5. MATINIQUE FDF PORT • Docks : 460 m • Storage area: 15 ha • Depth : 14 m • Number of containers in 2010: 140 000 (declining) • Transshipment: 10 000 • 5th rang in french ports • Local port depending on caribbean and european ports • Social instability • Inbalance import/export: 40%

  6. EXTENSION OF MARTINQUE PORT • Docks extension : 460 to 650 m • North zone extension: 9 ha • East zone extension : 3 ha • Access road : 5 Km • Total cost : 60 M € • Dead line: 2015

  7. MARTINIQUE PORT 2015 • Transshipment for route North-South America • From 10 000 containers transshiped to 220 000 and 350 000… • Service for East Caribbean, South America and Europe • Industrial and other value-added transformation for reexportfrom and to Europe

  8. LONG RUN PERSPECTIVE LONG TERM EXTENSION HUB PORT of CARIBBEAN • Construction of new facility and storage capacity : 45 ha • Docks: 1400 m • Depth: 18 m • Capacity: 500 000 to 1000 000 containers • Transshipment: caribbean-north-south-america-europe

  9. LONG RUN VISION • To become an « active frontier » of Europe, and not a passive appendix • Develop technologies and economic activities of the future with technological and scientific backing from Europe and elsewere • Direct connection and communication with our geographical region and the world • Turn the island culture to wath it was (amerindians) and should become again : « A maritime and forward looking culture »

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