INTER-AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON PORTS- CIP Project: Improved Disaster Risk Management for Ports in the Caribbean
JORGE DURÁN Chief of the Secretariat Inter-American Committee on Ports (CIP) [email protected] About the CIP
“Hemispheric cooperation for competitive, secure, sustainable and inclusive ports in the Americas.”
1.Antigua & Barbuda 20.Haiti 2.Argentina 21.Honduras 3.Bahamas 22.Jamaica 1. Political Dialogue 4.Barbados 23.Mexico 5.Belize 24.Nicaragua 6.Bolivia 25.Panama 7.Brazil 26.Paraguay 2. Capacity Building 8.Canada 27.Peru 9.Chile 28.Dominican 10.Colombia Republic 11.Costa Rica 29.St. Kitts & Navis 12.Cuba 30.St Vincent & the 3. Technical Assistance 13.Dominica Grenadines 14.Ecuador 31.St. Lucia 15.El Salvador 32.Suriname 16. United States 33.Trinidad & Tobago 4. Public-Private 17.Granada 34.Uruguay Partnerships 18.Guatemala 35.Venezuela 19.Guyana Executive Board
Technical Assistance Groups (TAGs)
TAG Presidents & Vice Presidents Scholarships and Training Program
IN 2020: 348 scholarships 12 on line certified courses 27 Member States US $465,300 value of scholarships
TOTAL – SCHOLARSHIPS 1,646 PROVIDED 2013-2020 Port Security On line Courses with USCG and Peru
29 Port officials from 13 Member States: Antigua y Barbuda, 30 Port officials from 16 Member States: Antigua y Barbados, Belice, Dominica, Islas Vírgenes Británicas, Jamaica, Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Panamá, Perú, San Cristóbal y Nieves, San Vicente y Guyana, Haití, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panamá, Santa las Granadinas, Santa Lucía y Surinam Lucía, San Martín, Surinam, y Islas Turcas y Caicos Background
• Maritime transportation is indispensable to global trade, accounting for 80% of global cargo trade and 95% of exports from Latin America and the Caribbean. • Ports = employment and industrial activity, contributing to national and regional development; service integration: logistics, information, and business, becoming the location of industrial clusters. • Man-made and natural disasters pose a particularly high risk to Caribbean ports. • The absence of updated measures for disaster prevention, mitigation, preparedness, and relief results in poor resiliency impacting on social mechanisms, lives, property, and economic development. • Case of Hutchison’s Freeport Container Port (FCP) in the Bahamas: After Hurricane Mathew hit in 2016, was still operating at only 50–55% of pre-Matthew in 2017. Improved Disaster Risk Management for Ports in the Caribbean
Purpose BENEFICIARY COUNTRIES Strengthen disaster risk management Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, capabilities in Port and Maritime Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Authorities of the Caribbean to reduce Dominican Republic, Grenada, the impact of natural and manmade Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint disasters on port operations. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago. Includes Additionally, Anguilla, British Developing Model Emergency Virgin Islands, Curacao, Grand Operations Plan (MEOP) for Caribbean Cayman, Montserrat, San Martin Ports to effectively prepare, respond, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. and recover from disasters. Project Phases (4)
1. Assessment (risk and capabilities): 2. Model Disaster Response Plan : • Comprehensive review of port vulnerabilities • Draft a Model Disaster Response Plan and current capacities for disaster risk (MOEP) for Caribbean Ports to management, including the review of existing effectively prepare, respond, and recover Emergency Response Plans in Caribbean ports. from disasters.
3. Training: 4. Regional simulations and drills: • Conduct regional workshops imparted in • Test the effectiveness of the Model cooperation with Strategic Partners and Disaster Response Plan, identify areas based on the MEOP, which can be adjusted for improvement. to local needs and requirements.
Recommendation: Updated legislation, regulation Review of international instruments to facilitate integration of MOEP in regulatory framework. Institutional Support
• Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) • Caribbean Shipping Association (CSA) • CIP National Port Authorities • Government of Italy 100,000 Euros • Government of the U.S.A. • HudsonAnalytix • MAERSK • Port Management Association of the Caribbean (PMAC) • T&T Salvage • United States Coast Guard (USCG) For further information please contact:
JORGE DURÁN MONA SWOBODA Chief of the Secretariat Program Manager Inter-American Committee on Ports (CIP) Inter-American Committee on Ports (CIP) [email protected] [email protected]