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Haiti Ports Network:
The two main international ports, or ports officially opened to external trade, in Haiti are the ports of Port-au-Prince and that of Cap-Haïtien.
Seventeen coastal traffic ports of which eight receive international traffic: Fort Liberté*, Port-de-Paix*, Gonaïves*, Saint-Marc*, Carriès, Anse-à-Galets. Cité Soleil (non-operational), La Saline, Petit-Goâve*. Miragoâne*, Baradères (non-operational), Jérémie, Anse-d'Hainault, Corail, Port-à-Piment, Cayes*, and Jacmel*. (* = Coastal traffic ports with international traffic).
The main part of these installations were built or re-habilitated during the 1970 – 1984 period.
The National Port Authority (APN - Autorité Portuaire Nationale) is a commercially motivated independent body placed under tutorship of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, whose essential mission is to provide port services to ships and users of Haiti ports. It, namely, has the mandate to: develop, maintain, operate, manage the country public port facilities and improve the performances and economic return, establish the tariffs, rates, laws and rules of all ports, promote, develop and administer the “Free Zone”.
Considering their advanced state of degradation and their inadequacy to greet unsolicited international traffic, the coastal traffic port installations require considerable rehabilitation works. Three of them appear on the government rehabilitation program, through the central management unit: Port-de-Paix severely damaged by a ship in 1987 during meteorological perturbations. Gonaïves et Saint-Marc.
The APN provides no services nor warehousing at those ports, which have no handling equipments and in most cases have no water, electricity nor telephone.
Coastal traffic has contributed to internal transport of goods and passengers, of which 50% were from, or destined, to
Port au Prince
The International port of Port au Prince includes the quays and warehouses operated directly by APN constituting the main terminal, and those built and operated by other enterprises. these quays are located along the bay of Port au Prince that goes from the nothern foreland of trou-Forban, to the Southern one of Ca-Ira.
Description
Particular indicating:
- Local Time: GMT - 5h
- Latitude 18o 33' N & Longitude 72o 21' W , Marine maps : 26181 and 26186
Access:
Northwestern channel of Saint-Marc and Southern channel of la Gonave. 104 o , lining up to the top light of either the Cathedral or Fort Natioan . Access channels: 4km long each, 12 to 20 m deep and Anchoring and quarantine l.Position: latitud 19o. 26' 46'' N, longitud: 72o 44' 46''
Marine map:
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General Wheather conditions:
Unruffled bay - Rain from March to June, and from September to December - East or North-East breath in the morning, West breath in the evening - Tidal range 38 to 45 cm - Insignificant stream.
Quays specificities
1/MAIN TERMINAL: (PROBLEM WITH SECURITY )
Water depth: 8 to 10 m; 7 berths; all berths length : 1250m; 2 platform RO/RO: 14 to 29m wide; one cruise ship teminal: 500 m long; "Close" w/h space: 10,000 m2;
Available equipment poorly maintained: 1railed-crane 30Mt; 1 trolley 30 Mt; 1 crane P7H 150Mt; 3 forklifts 33 Mt; 20 forklift 3 to 7 Mt; 12 trailers; 11 platforms (flat-bed)
2/PRIVATE QUAYS
- TERMINAL VARREUX (formerly Wharf HASCO) ; Latitude 18o33'45'' North 7 Longitude 72o20'30''West; water depth 9 m; Gera: Pipe-lines, cranes P&H14 quays but only one for International Commerce. Monthly activity: 12,088 MT
- QUAY of "Les Moulins d 'Haiti" (Quay of Laffiteau); Latitude 18o33'45'' North 7 Longitude 72o20'30''West; water depth 9 m; Gera: Pipe-lines, cranes P&H14 quays but only one for International Commerce. Monthly activity: 12,088 MT
Problems
The Port de Port-au-Prince is affected by a number of problems, namely:
- degradation of structures
- berths have no protection, making docking dangerous for structures
- average handling equipment (20 years old) is obsolete, less and less used, are insufficient in numbers, mainly out of order or only partly operational. The private sector, therefore, normally use their own equipment for handling of containers
- the 150 T P&H crane is out of order and the railed crane, with a reach of 25.6m, is used at no more than half it’s capacity as it cannot accommodate the PANAMAX ships whose width is 32.25m
- the need for important dredging works – the access way and berths, initially having 10m depths, require expensive dredging due to sanding which has reduced this depth to 8 and 9 m.
- the marking of the port has been inexistent for several years, compromising maritime navigation safety, and
- ship water re-supply is made through the use of tanker trucks as the port does not have dedicated water tanks
Cap Haitien
The Port du Cap-Haïtien, with a dual vocation of cruise ship and merchandise port, holds generally modern infrastructures which are in good condition. It, however, is not equipped with handling equipment, its warehouses are in poor condition and it has a non-operational water tank.
The port of Cap-Haïtien, does not receive such intense traffic as that of
Customs
Procedure
One original set and 12 copies of following documents: Custom Declaration, jointly with certif. of origine, invoice, phytosanitarian certif. transport document (Waybill) and copy of the "Quitus fiscal".
Note that for Taxe Exemption, a "franchise" need to be approved by the M.F.A. ( chef du protocole). Declaration should be prepared in Port au Prince but can be prepared in Cap Haitien for Cap haitien cargo with a copy of the letter addressed to the MFA.
Estimated duration
Estimate duration for cargo custom clearance and cost:: about 8 days but clearance should be initiated with copies of B/L to at least request the Franchise to the Head of protocol.
