1. Maritime Routes and Logistical Platforms in the Greater Caribbean
Challenges and Opportunities for Martinique
Pr Jean CRUSOL
REGIONAL COUNCIL MARTINIQUE

2. THE GREATER CARIBBEAN Total land erea: 2 M Km2 Sea erea : 3 M Km2
Strategic location between North 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
Ships capacity: from 5000 to (15 000)
Growth untill 2025: 11 M (plus 4 M)
Saturation of existing ports

4. MAIN LOGISTIC PORTS IN THE CARIBBEAN
Kingston: >
RioHaina-Punta Causedo: >
Freeport: >
Cartagena :
Port of Spain:
Martinique : <

5. MATINIQUE FDF PORT Docks : 460 m Storage area: 15 ha Depth : 14 m
Number of containers in 2010: (declining)
Transshipment:
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 containers transshiped to and …
Service for East Caribbean, South America and Europe
Industrial and other value-added transformation for reexport from 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: to containers
Transshipment: caribbean-north-south-america-europe

9. « A maritime and forward looking culture »
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 »