Ports: Green gateways to Europe
10 transitions to turn ports into decarbonization hubs

(DNV-GL & Eureletric, 2020)

The Executive Summary captures the key purpose of the report which is to identify and examine key maritime challenges that are common across the Pacific Region and specific to Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Mainly in the maritime transport sector to development outcomes, and propose specific sustainable measures and action plans to strengthen port and maritime operations. The report will be the basis for coordinated actions to identify funding needs in the sector and will inform current and future development efforts to effectively address issues impeding safe, efficient, competitive, and sustainable regional maritime transport systems and operations. The five countries selected serve as a pilot for mainstreaming coordinated efforts throughout the Pacific Region. This report focuses on three pillars of the maritime sector: (1) institutional arrangements; (2) port infrastructure and port operations; and (3) shipping services (international, intra-regional and domestic) and trade.

The purpose of this report is to identify and examine key maritime challenges that are common across the Pacific Region and specific to Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu, identify gaps constraining the contribution of the maritime transport sector to development outcomes, and propose specific sustainable measures and action plans to strengthen port and maritime operations.  This report focuses on three pillars of the maritime sector: (1) institutional arrangements; (2) port infrastructure and port operations; and (3) shipping services (international, intra-regional and domestic) and trade.

It is necessary to further improve the maritime security and maritime safety capabilities of PICs against the backdrop of recent awareness of conservation of marine resources, marine environment protection, and the importance of maritime security in the PIC region. JICA launched a survey for the purpose of collecting information, analyzing the current situation, and extracting issues in the maritime security and safety fields of PICs to draft a support policy and specific cooperation plan following the PALM 8 (8th Pacific Leaders Forum) Leaders’ Declaration.

This study examines how efficiently, economically and sustainably Fiji supply chains are functioning, with a view to identifying the need for policy changes and/or infrastructure investment.

Smoothly functioning supply chains require efficiently run ports with sufficient infrastructure (break waters, quay wall, yard, roads) and superstructure (cranes, vehicles, sheds, gate), efficient transhipment to and from domestic shipping services, hinterland road networks with adequate capacity, and IT systems that facilitate trade. This report focuses in greater depth on the containerized import chains, as this is where significant issues remain to be solved. More general conclusions are reached about non-containerised import and export chains