A “man-made logistics crisis” is unfolding at Kingston’s port.
Congestion is driving up costs for businesses and returning residents.
Containers are sitting for weeks — in some cases, months.
Daily storage and demurrage fees are compounding rapidly.
Returnees face complex and often outdated clearance requirements.
Modern working realities are clashing with older verification systems.
Long-standing seasonal bottlenecks remain unresolved.
The strain is exposing deeper weaknesses in Jamaica’s logistics framework.
There is a particular kind of friction that reveals itself not in noise, but in repetition.
A form requested, then requested again.
A shipment landed, then left untouched.
A process designed for movement, slowly hardening into resistance.
At the centre of it all sits the Port of Kingston, a place built for flow, of goods, of commerce, of life between islands and continents, now described by members of the People’s National Party as the si…
