CSA

Mission Statement
"To promote and foster the highest quality service to the maritime industry through training development; working with all agencies, groups and other associations for the benefit and development of its members and the peoples of the Caribbean region."

GENERAL COUNCIL
2008-2009

PRESIDENT:
Fernando Rivera

VICE PRESIDENT:
Carlos Urriola

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT:
Corah-Ann Robertson Sylvester

GROUP A CHAIRMAN:
Robert Foster

GROUP A REPRESENTATIVE:
Michael Bernard

GROUP A REPRESENTATIVE:
Ian Deosaran

GROUP A REPRESENTATIVE:
Francis Comacho

GROUP B CHAIRMAN:
Grantley Stephenson

GROUP B REPRESENTATIVE:
David Jean-Marie

GROUP C CHAIRMAN:
Cyril Seyjagat

GROUP C REPRESENTATIVE:
David Ross

GENERAL MANAGER:
Clive Forbes

DIRECTOR INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS:
Michael S.L. Jarrett

2005 June 29

2005 June 29: Container storage fees at the Kingston Container Terminal are to be increased by about 50 per cent on July 1, 2005, from approximately USD16 to over USD24 per day, as efforts continue to get importers to clear their cargo from the wharves.

Peter Ford, the managing director of APM Terminals Jamaica Limited, told the Jamaica Observer newspaper that up to this week, several containers of imported goods, which arrived last year, were still sitting on the wharves unclaimed.

Under the present system, importers are allowed unlimited free storage until the containers are inspected. However, the new system will require importers to have their goods inspected within 24 hours after arrival.

After they have been inspected, importers are allowed one business day and after that there is a penalty for storage.

Ford said the measures should avoid a repeat of last year's severe congestion at the port, caused by a 26 per cent increase in volume in July and the subsequent delays caused by four hurricanes which hit a number of Caribbean countries, including Jamaica, and United States ports between August and September.

The Kingston port, one of the region's busiest, has the capacity to handle 1.2 million 20-foot containers annually, but with the expansion project now underway to be completed in September, will be able to move to 1.5 million a year.

As the high volume Christmas season approaches, the port has already seen a increase in volume. According to the news report, the Kingston terminal had a record 87,500 lifts in May, 13,000 more lifts than was projected.

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