Maritime & Transport Services Limited

Business View Caribbean 5 Clarke enumerates the many other roles that MTS has taken on over time: “We’ve gone into ship brokerage, where we would go and find a vessel for somebody who has the cargo to put the cargo on that vessel. We’ve gone so far as to become a principal, ourselves - own- ing small boats that handle the pilot duties and service launches, supplying vessels that are at the anchorage with transportation, carrying crew members or service technicians from shore to vessel and vice versa. We’ve gone into bunkering, which is the refueling of vessels that pass Jamaica. We’ve gone into custom brokerage, which is the clearance of the cargo after it arrives on the island, as well as freight-forwarding, which is ex- porting the cargo from Jamaica to other islands. We’ve gone into warehousing for our clients, storing goods and delivering them when they need them.” The benefits of being a modern, one-stop-shop opera- tion accrue both to MTS, as well as to the companies it services because it makes it easier for those custom- ers to do business in a more cost-efficient way. Clarke explains: “We run a full service for our clients. Some- times people are focused on just one aspect in ship- ping, while there are many different aspects and many different ways adding value while being profitable; many different revenue streams that you can take ad- vantage of. And we try to do everything for our client, so our client doesn’t have to come to us and then go to somebody else, or a third or fourth party, to get the same thing done that they can come to our group for.” MTS also performs third-party logistics; exhibiting how the company will, literally, go the extra mile for a busi- ness partner: “One client that we have – Payless Shoe Stores - import shoes into Jamaica. We will custom- clear them, receive them into our warehouse, and store them. We will then get orders from each store and take those orders off the shelves in our warehouse, pack them into our truck, and deliver them to each store, island- wide. So we’ve gone into warehousing, trucking - we execute the entire logistic chain of moving cargo from overseas to its final destination in Jamaica.”