TRANSPORTATION
Roads:
Road travel is the main means of transport; almost 70 percent of cargo is transported by road, as compared with 27 percent by railroad, 3 percent by internal waterways, and 1 percent by air. Nevertheless, Caribbean islands have one of the lowest ratios of paved roads per inhabitant. The islands have well-developed air and waterway routes. The only means of transportation in 60 percent of the country is via waterway.
Railroads:
Caribbean islands have the oldest colonial railroad in the world. Established in 1843 by the Jamaican Railway Company, the rail system was subsequently expanded, improved, and eventually sold to the government. The rail system covered 340 kilometers of tracks by the 1980s. In the 1950s and 1960s, bauxite companies built small, unconnected rail lines to their major ports at Discovery Bay, Ocho Rios, Port Antonio, Rocky Point, and Port Kaiser. The rail system was run by the government-owned Jamaica Railway Corporation, which generally operated at a loss in the 1980s.
Aviation:
Main airports:
- Aruba:
- Reina Beatrix Airport
- Aruba Airport Authority
- Curacao:
- Hato International Airport
- Guadeloupe:
- Jamaica:
- Norman Manley Airport
- Donald Sangster Airport
- Tinson Pen Airport
- Ken Jones Airport
- Margarita:
- International Airport Santiago Marino
- Saint Maarten:
- Trinidad & Tobago:
- Piarco International Airport
- Crown Point International Airport
- Turks & Caicos:
- Turks & Caicos International Airport