Maritime & Transport Services Limited

6 Business View Caribbean MTS employs over 200 people on the island. “We are based in Kingston, and we have full-time offices in Kingston and Montego Bay,” says Clarke. “We have what’s called operational offices where we only attend when a vessel is in port, and those would be in Port Kaiser, Rocky Point, Ocho Rios, and Discovery Bay. We also have opened up offices in Trinidad and Barbados. In Trinidad, we have two operations that are set up now - both based off of the functions that we do in Jamaica. In Trinidad, we have a little over a hundred employees. In Barbados we’re not that established, as yet. We’ve invested with a partner, there, and we have about ten people in Barbados. But we work cargo in each country. So we not only operate in Jamaica, but we now stretch across the Caribbean – and we hope to keep building a Caribbean network.” As if the MTS Group wasn’t busy enough, Clarke re- veals that there are other business ventures he would like to see the company embark upon, one of which is ship repair. “That is something that we hope to achieve before 2020 - to have a floating dock which would be a barge able to lift vessels out of the water to do repairs and maintenance on. Right now, small, recreational vessels are dry-docked. We’re hoping to do it with larger vessels that carry cargo.” In addition, Clarke admits that he has always wanted to get into air transport, but, as yet, has not been able to “break into