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 between Atlantic and Pacific oceans Panama Canal: Trade: 300 M tons >50% intra USA

MAIN MARITIME ROUTES IN THE CARIBBEAN Total Transshipment 2010: 7 Million containers Canal extension : 2015 Ships capacity: from 5000 to 12 000 (15 000) Growth untill 2025: 11 M (plus 4 M) Saturation of existing ports

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

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%

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

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 reexport from and to Europe

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

« 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 »