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Latin America ’s Port Leaders Change When Efficiency Enters the Equation

The hierarchy of Latin America and the Caribbean’s container ports looks familiar when measured by volume. Santos leads, followed by Manzanillo, Cartagena and Callao. Change the metric from containers handled to the time ships spend in port, however, and the ...

Dominican

The multi-port logic Behind Dominican cruise growth

The Dominican Republic is adding more than cruise capacity. New...

Piarco

Piarco is building a smarter caribbean airspace

Across a vast stretch of Caribbean and Atlantic airspace, Trinidad...

Airport

The Airport Is Visible. The Contract Behind It Is Not.

Runways, terminals and boarding bridges are the visible side of an airport concession. The less visible part can shape the ...

Kingston

Why Kingston is building 300 metres of runway into the Harbour

A 300-metre runway extension would normally suggest more capacity: additional aircraft movements, longer take-offs or heavier departures. At Norman Manley ...

Barbados

Barbados is raising the bar on Seafarer Compliance

Barbados has approved a sweeping new seafarer framework that reaches well beyond certificates and crew contracts. For a ship registry ...

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MSC Cruises: Building the Caribbean’s European Hub — From Fort-de-France to La Romana

In conversation with Patrick Pourbaix — Managing Director, MSC Cruises & Explora Journeys France & Monaco There is a statistic that Patrick Pourbaix, CEO of MSC Cruises France, delivers with...

MSC Cruises: Building the Caribbean’s European Hub — From Fort-de-France to La Romana

In conversation with Patrick Pourbaix — Managing Director, MSC Cruises & Explora Journeys France & Monaco There is

Passenger Experience in LAC Airports: A Growth Driver

A passenger who spends 45 minutes in an immigration queue doesn’t browse the duty-free. They run to the gate. That’s not just a bad experience — it’s lost revenue. Across...

Passenger Experience in LAC Airports: A Growth Driver

A passenger who spends 45 minutes in an immigration queue doesn’t browse the duty-free. They run to the

Cruise

A new economic benchmark is coming for caribbean cruise destinations

More than 30 cruise destinations across the Caribbean and Latin America are entering a new cycle of economic-impact measurement. The ...

Cargo

LAC air cargo growth accelerates — But two markets dominate the gains

International air cargo across Latin America and the Caribbean recorded its strongest growth rate of 2026 in June, but the ...

baggage

The baggage system is becoming airport capacity infrastructure

Airport capacity is usually visible. It comes in the form of runways, gates, aircraft stands and terminal buildings. Some of ...

Panama

Panama’s next logistics bet is 5–6 Million TEUs of new transshipment capacity

Panama’s port system handled about 9.9 million TEU in 2025, reinforcing its position as one of Latin America’s largest container ...

Ecuador

Ecuador ’s air connectivity has grown 56% — But connecting traffic remains limited

Ecuador has become significantly better connected to the rest of Latin America over the past decade. But IATA data show ...

Santos

Tecon Santos 10: Can Brazil add capacity without adding concentration?

Brazil’s largest container gateway keeps getting busier. The Port of Santos handled a record 5.9 million TEU in 2025, while ...

LAC

Capacity keeps growing as LAC air demand turns negative

Passenger demand across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) weakened in June even as airlines continued to add capacity, creating ...

maritime

A new maritime Rulebook for the world’s leading passenger-ship flag

On April 1, 2026, The Bahamas brought into force a modernised maritime framework built around the Merchant Shipping Act 2021 ...

Paraguay’s air traffic grows 13% as scheduled connectivity deepens

Paraguay handled 715,372 commercial air passengers in the first half of 2026, up 13% from a year earlier. Behind that ...

Mexico

Mexico’s cruise passenger fee just doubled — Does it change port competitiveness?

Mexico has doubled the effective charge applied to eligible foreign cruise passengers, from the equivalent of US$5 to US$10 per ...

Capacity

Growth without room: How Latin American airports are creating Capacity

More than half of flights in Latin America and the Caribbean now operate from or arrive at airports that IATA ...

Shipping

The human infrastructure behind Caribbean green shipping

A port can build an ammonia bunkering facility. A shipping company can order a methanol-fuelled vessel. Neither investment delivers much ...

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Martinique: Bordeaux and Fort-de-France linked by a direct air bridge with CORSAIR

On December 15, 2025, Aimé-Césaire airport welcomed the first direct flight from Bordeaux to Fort-de-France, operated by CORSAIR. This new route marks a strategic turning

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Martinique: Bordeaux and Fort-de-France linked by a direct air bridge with CORSAIR

On December 15, 2025, Aimé-Césaire airport welcomed the first direct flight from Bordeaux to Fort-de-France, operated by CORSAIR.

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