Transport in Haiti - Water Transport

Water Transport

The port at Port-au-Prince, Port international de Port-au-Prince, has more registered shipping than any of the over dozen ports in the country. The port's facilities include cranes, large berths, and warehouses, but these facilities are in universally poor shape. The port is underused, possibly due to the substantially high port fees compared to ports in the Dominican Republic.

The port of Saint-Marc is currently the preferred port of entry for consumer goods coming into Haiti. Reasons for this may include its location away from volatile and congested Port-au-Prince, as well as its central location relative to a large group of Haitian cities including Cap-Haïtien, Carrefour, Delmas, Desarmes, Fond-Parisien, Fort-Liberté, Gonaïves, Hinche, l'Artibonite, Limbe, Pétionville, Port-de-Paix, and Verrettes. These cities, together with their surrounding areas, contain about six million of Haiti's eight million people.

The Island of Ile-a-vache, La Tortue, Petit and grand Caillimite, gros-caille and la Gonave are reachable only by ferry or small sailing boat, except La Gonave who has an air strip that rarely use. Other town like Jeremie are still being access mostly by ferry, thanks to the construction of RN7, finally the population of grand Anse will dare to defy “Fanm Pa dra” a Narrow and stip hill, curve build during the American occupation, which was very dangerous and in some part of this road people had to come out of the Bus and work behind it up to 5 km. The Majorities of town near the coastal of Haiti are also accessible by the small sailing boat which is preferable and cheaper to many passengers. In some area sailing boat is more available for the commute than public transportation, which usually is on the back of a Truck load withmerchandise and passengers that rarely come to those areas except when it’s the Public market day.