representing an estimated 37 carriers in 2011. The roles of the hubs are different: while all received traffic from each other, the Dominican Republic, for example, focuses much more on South America and Europe than on direct shipping originating from the Far East, which is more likely to go to Jamaica (Table 37).

|**Table 36:**<br>|**Annual Capacity and N**<br>|**umber of Carries in the Caribbean**<br>||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Country**|**Port**|**Est. Annual TEU Capacity**|**Carriers**|
||**Small Isl**<br>|**and States**<br>||
|Antigua and Barbuda|St. John's|115,856|4|
|Dominica|Roseau|113,256|5|
|Grenada|St. George's|165,523|5|
|St. Kitts and Nevis|Basseterre|128,076|6|
|St. Lucia|Castries|170,723|6|
|St. Lucia|Vieux Fort|138,840|4|
|St. Vincent and the Grenadines|Kingstown|197,347|5|
||**Hub C**|**ountries**||
|Bahamas,The|Freeport|1,999,466|7|
|Bahamas,The|Nassau|54,600|2|
|Barbados|Bridgetown|221,780|7|
|Dominican Republic|Boca Chica|50,821|2|
|Dominican Republic|Caucedo|4,543,902|16|
|Dominican Republic|Manzanillo|71,188|4|
|Dominican Republic|Puerto Plata|129,220|3|
|Dominican Republic|Rio Haina|1,210,495|16|
|Jamaica|Kingston|7,312,131|19|
|Jamaica|Montego Bay|146,829|3|
|Trinidad and Tobago|Point Lisas|300,471|7|
|Trinidad and Tobago|Port of Spain|1,687,959|11|
||**Continenta**<br>|**lCaribbean **<br>||
|Belize|Belize City|40,248|3|
|Guyana|Georgetown|203,769|6|
|Suriname|Paramaribo|264,375|7|
||**Fragile C**|**aribbean**||
|Haiti|Port au Prince|388,118|7|

_Source: Authors’ calculation on data found in the Containerization International Yearbook (2012)._ _Note: The estimated capacity served on each island is calculated multiplying the capacity of each vessel in TEU by the frequency. This is only an approximate measure, since vessels typically have many stops on each route, and use transshipment ports for transfers. A vessel carries many containers for many different final destinations, and each port only receives a fraction of what is carried._

||**Table 37: Main Regions and/or Hubs Served by the Hub Countries**<br>|
|---|---|
|**Country**|**Countries that the most dominant routes inthe hub pass through **|
|Bahamas,The|US,South Africa,Panama,Central America,South America,a few Far East,no Caribbean transfer|
|Jamaica|US,Far East,South America,some Caribbean transfer|
|Dominican Republic|US,South America,Europe,Jamaica,Trinidad,no Caribbean transfer|
|Trinidad|Panama & Jamaica,South America,US,Europe,serves as main Caribbean transfer|
|Barbados|US,Trinidad,Dominican Republic,Jamaica,serves as main Caribbean transfer|

_Source: Authors’ calculation on data found in the Containerization International Yearbook (2012)._ In the case of the Continental Caribbean, Belize is unique. Only three routes served the country, of which only one touched the U.S. (Port Everglades), and the remaining two Central American routes pass through Kingston, Jamaica as the main hub. Guyana was served by six routes, all of which passed through Trinidad, four of which stopped in the U.S., and two of which passed through Kingston, Jamaica. Suriname had seven routes, of which one had its main hub in Rio Haina in the Dominican Republic, six went through Trinidad, and four went through the U.S. Almost all routes were basically Caribbean routes, with one route going through the U.K. and the Netherlands.

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