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21 maj 2022 · Jamaica is an island country of the Caribbean Sea, spread over 10,990 square kilometres, making it the third-largest island (after Cuba and Hispaniola) of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Let's take a look at the major ports of Jamaica.
century made Port Royal their home and that town was considered to be the “mercantile hub of the Caribbean and the most economically important English port in the Americas”.
A number of CARICOM countries (esp. Jamaica and The Bahamas) benefit from their intermediacy setting in the principal East-West global trade routes, which pass through the Panama Canal on the one hand and for North-South routes between South America and North America on the other hand.
Though it was not the first country to enter the Caribbean, the British Empire’s trade dominated the area during the 17th and 18th centuries. As the most important port in the New World, the prosperity of Port Royal, Jamaica in turn led to the stability of the British economy.
I N June i692, Port Royal, Jamaica, was almost entirely destroyed by earthquake. With over 4,000 inhabitants, the town had been the largest in the English West Indies and the busiest port in English America.1 In i688, 2I3 ships came into Port Royal, I02 into Barbados, and 226 into all the New England ports combined.2 Port Royal's bustling
1 gru 2016 · 1939-1944 – WWII. With the closure of the Atlantic merchant shipping lanes, Kingston port flowered into a range of activities as a new coastal trade was renewed among Jamaican ports; and small boats started trading with other Caribbean ports as new sources of goods were sought.
20 paź 2020 · The port of Kingston and the outports – Portland Bight, which includes Port Esquivel, Rocky Point, Old Harbour and Salt River; Port Kaiser; Montego Bay; Falmouth; Rio Bueno; Discovery Bay; Ocho Rios; and Port Antonio – currently serve as the island’s active ports.
