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Prepared for: the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing
by: MariNova Consulting Ltd. in association
with Dillon Consulting Ltd, O'Halloran Campbell Consultants
Ltd and T.L. Shipping Services Ltd.
Background and Executive Summary
One of the goals of the Nova Scotia Department of
Agriculture and Marketing is for Nova Scotia agri-food
producers to have cost effective shipping to markets
in:
- Bermuda, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Jamaica,
and Dominican Republic in the north Caribbean regions
- Barbados, Trinidad, Dominica, St. Lucia, Guyana,
and St. Vincent in the south
It is also the desire to examine the possibiltiy of establishing warehousing and distribution facilities in Nova Scotia or on one or more of the Caribbean islands, where different shipments could be consolidated. The Department also wishes to examine potential for developing new shipping routes, and to look specifically at the Cuban connection.
The objectives of the study are to:
- profile the shipping and distribution situation
in the Caribbean, for air and sea, with primary
focus on those markets listed above:
- analyse the following options for improving the access for the Nova Scotia agri-food industry in the Caribbean market:
- the establishement of a Nova Scotia consolidation
point or Caribbean warehousing/distribution
facility
- the development of new shipping routes
- the potential enhancement of the Cuban connection
- recommend ways for the Nova Scotia agri-food industry
to better supply key markets in the Caribbean
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