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\u2013 A new strategy for maritime transport\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
![\"Port_de_Toamasina_2\"](\"https:\/\/madagascar.yearbook-media.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/Port_de_Toamasina_2-rpf570j3oqe01r4202s9vr5s1s3oc2k5n1q7qy5y6y.jpg\" "\\"Port")
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\tDrafted with the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the new draft National Maritime Transport Policy (NMTP) is structured around five axes, including the modernization and competitiveness of ports.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t \t\t Madagascar has a rich maritime and marine heritage with 5,400 km of coastline, around twenty listed seaports, approximately 1,200,000 km\u00b2 of Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), and more than 2 million km\u00b2 of Search and Rescue Region. <\/p>\n Adapted to the country's realities, the National Maritime Policy (PNTM) will serve as a national benchmark and guide government action over the long term by clearly and firmly outlining the essential guidelines for good governance and integrated regulation of the sector. The primary objective is for Madagascar to become more competitive internationally, whether in terms of port infrastructure, maritime personnel, or navigation equipment.<\/p>\n It is structured around five strategic axes: transparent, integrated, professional and inclusive maritime transport governance; competent human resources at the service of maritime transport; modern, safe, competitive and local ports; safe and secure ships and navigation; a clean environment protected from the harmful effects of maritime transport.<\/p>\n With this new policy, Madagascar intends to make the maritime transport sector one of the leading socio-economic sectors, in order to enable it to assume its insularity \u2013 the 4th largest island in the world \u2013 and to establish its reputation at the regional and continental level.<\/p>\n The Island of Madagascar has seventeen ports: Fort-Dauphin, Manakara, Mananjary, Toamasina, Sainte-Marie, Maroantsetra, Antalaha, Voh\u00e9mar, Antsiranana, Port Saint-Louis, Nosy Be, Antsohihy, Mahajanga, Maintirano, Morondava, Morombe, Tul\u00e9ar. Four of them are classified as \u00abPorts of National Interest\u00bb: Antsiranana, Tul\u00e9ar, Mahajanga and Toamasina. The latter have port infrastructures allowing the carrying out of commercial operations of loading and unloading long-distance ships.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t \t\t The modernization of the port of Toamasina<\/span> Toamasina, formerly Tamatave, displays ambitions essential to the economic development of Madagascar: to finally house the modern port capable of meeting the commercial needs of the Great Island and to play a role as a platform for the redistribution of goods on a regional scale.<\/p>\n The works, which began in April 2018, are on schedule. The first phase is expected to last thirty months, at the end of which the port will receive a new ten-hectare reclaimed area built on the reef and intended, eventually, for container storage.<\/p>\n The construction of a new 470-meter-long terminal, along with the rehabilitation of the old quays at Pier C, all brought to a draft of 16 meters, will allow for the handling of nearly 20 million [tonnes] each year.\u00a0<\/p>\n of various goods, including more than half a million containers, following the arrival in 2023 of the first gantry crane ever installed on its docks. All of these infrastructures are scheduled for completion by 2025, tripling storage and handling capacities.<\/p>\n Also wanting to develop activities in the field of cruises and roll-on\/roll-off traffic, the first Malagasy port will then have the maritime means to best serve the domestic market.\u00a0<\/p>\n As part of the Antananarivo-Toamasina-Madagascar (Tatom) project, studies have been launched concerning the construction of a bypass highway around the port city, as well as the repair and widening of the RN2 which connects to the Malagasy capital.\u00a0<\/p>\n The increase in container traffic, which exceeded seven million boxes in the sub-region in 2019, is attracting the interest of major shipping companies to improve their service to the area by relying on the transshipment platform best suited to the specificities of their traffic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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