Madagascar - Transport - A new strategy for maritime transport

Written with the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the new draft National Maritime Transport Policy (PNTM) is structured around five axes including the modernization and competitiveness of ports.

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Madagascar has a rich maritime and marine heritage with 5,400 km of coastline, around twenty listed seaports, approximately 1,200,000 km² of Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), and more than 2 million km² of Search and Rescue Region.

Adapted to the country's realities, the PNTM will constitute a national reference and will guide the State's actions in the long term by clearly indicating the precise and clear guidelines essential to good governance and integrated regulation of the sector. The main objective is to enable Madagascar to be more competitive at the international level, whether in terms of port infrastructure, seafaring personnel or navigation equipment.

It is structured around five strategic axes: transparent, honest, 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.

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 – the 4th largest island in the world – and to establish its reputation at the regional and continental level.

The Island of Madagascar has seventeen ports: Fort-Dauphin, Manakara, Mananjary, Toamasina, Sainte-Marie, Maroantsetra, Antalaha, Vohémar, Antsiranana, Port Saint-Louis, Nosy Be, Antsohihy, Mahajanga, Maintirano, Morondava, Morombe, Tuléar. Four of them are classified as “Ports of National Interest”: Antsiranana, Tuléar, Mahajanga and Toamasina. The latter have port infrastructures allowing the carrying out of commercial operations of loading and unloading long-distance ships.

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Modernization of the port of Toamasina

Toamasina, formerly Tamatave, displays ambitions essential to the economic development of Madagascar: to finally house a modern port capable of meeting the commercial needs of the Big Island and playing a role as a platform for the redistribution of goods on a regional scale.

The work, which began in April 2018, is 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 land area, eventually intended for container storage.

The construction of a new 470-meter-long terminal, as well as the rehabilitation of the old quays of Pier C, all brought to a draft of 16 meters deep, will make it possible to handle nearly 20 million ships each year.

of tonnes of various goods, including more than half a million containers, following the arrival, in 2023, of the first gantry crane ever installed on its quays. All of this infrastructure must be completed by 2025, tripling storage and handling capacity.

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 resources allowing it to best serve the domestic market.

As part of the Antananarivo-Toamasina-Madagascar (Tatom) project, studies have been launched on the construction of a bypass motorway around the port city, as well as the repair and widening of the RN2 which connects to the Malagasy capital.

The increase in container traffic, which exceeded seven million boxes in the sub-region in 2019, has aroused the interest of the main shipping companies in improving their service to the area by relying on the transhipment platform best suited to the specificities of their traffic.