The Jamaica Logistic Hub: Economic Game Change?
Senior Officials in the Government argue that Changes in global manufacturing, trading and shipping - along with the proposed expansion of the Panama canal to accomodate the new mega-liners - offer a unique opportunity for Jamaica to become a major player in global logistics.
The logistics hub could be a substantial contributor to transforming our economy
Exploring how Jamaica can create a roadmap to guide the country to eventually realizing its very strong potential to be a leader in the world’s US $113-billion sports industry. More...
Anthony Hylton M.P., is Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce.
Getting Jamaica ready for the emerging global trading patterns: The vision
This symposium provides an opportunity to share some thoughts and dialogue on a very important issue in our 51st year of Independence. We need to think a about the ways in which we can collectively collaborate to achieve objectives. And we need to think too about whether the ways in which we do that collaboration and dialoguing is the most efficient. We have to think about how we convert these large visions and dreams into a reality within the context that we operate in. More...
Gordon Shirley is Chairman and CEO of the Port Authority of Jamaica.
Economic zones central to the hub initiative
Sustainable development rests on three pillars: Social sustainability, economic sustainability and environmental sustainability. The three have to be balanced. My focus in this paper is on the economic aspects of the Jamaica Logistics Hub: what it is, what are its unique features and what separates us from everybody else. What will make us special in our claim to become the fourth global logistics hub? More...
Eric Deans is Chairman Logistics Hub Initiative Task Force and Lecturer on Sustainable Logistics Chains at the Caribbean Maritime Institute.
Preparing a 21st century workforce for new jobs in the logistics hub
Logistics is one of the most critical aspects of global and local trade. A supply chain is a trading network of trading partners, and logistics is the glue that holds them together. We may be anywhere in the world and are able to trade, communicate and be linked to each other through logistics; so it is anything that moves the information, the goods or services. Anything that
connects that global supply chain is actually part of logistics and information is a critical part. More...
Fritz Pinnock is Executive Director, Caribbean Maritime Institute.
New services development: An imperative for Jamaica’s Logistics Hub
Much of the discussion about Jamaica’s favourable prospects of becoming the 4th global logistics hub, emphasize the country’s physical attributes and natural endowments. Jamaica enjoys an advantageous geographical position in close proximity to the Panama Canal and is astride the major East-West container shipping lanes. Little reference, however, is made to a glaring deficiency in the quality of shiprelated and logistics services in Jamaica. The 2012 rankings for logistics performance, as compiled by the World Bank, shows Jamaica ranking 124th overall from 155 countries. More...
Sydney Innis is a DBA candidate at Mona School of Business and Management, UWI.
Maurice McNaughton is the Direcetor of the Centre of Excellence for IT Innovation at the Mona School of Business & Management, UWI.
Economic Potential of the Hub: A Critique
This symposium on the Logistics Hub has been extremely instructive because the information presented has addressed some of the fears and uncertainties I had prior to this event; but the more we learn the more questions we still have. I sense an underlying fear in many peoples’ minds that the logistic hub project will perpetuate a historical pattern of foreign investment in export activity that is unfriendly to the environment and does not benefit the ordinary Jamaican. More...
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