Declining container traffic at Caribbean ports

According to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), container throughput in the Caribbean ports declined by 8.2% last year.

ECLAC said the “limited dynamism” of the region’s ports in 2014 was determined mainly by “the fall in the Caribbean area and on the east coast of South America, where in the first case transhipment operations represent a significant volume of port activity.”

“This was explained mainly by Jamaica, the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic showing annual declines of 3.9%, 6.7% and 9.9%, respectively and Argentina 22.4%.”