Majuro Recorded Second Highest Transshipments For 2024 In November

The port of Majuro, Marshall Islands’ main transshipment area, had the second busiest month of 2024 in November. January was the highest. Last month, 23 tuna transfers from seiners to carrier vessels took place in this port, whereas it was 41 in January, reported Pacific Island news sites. Nauru-flagged seiners accounted for the most transshipments with seven, followed by the Taiwanese with six, and the Marshall Islands and Micronesia-flagged seiners with five each.

Catches in WCPO have been at high levels throughout most of 2024 and the transshipments were mostly carried out in Kosrae and Pohnpei (Micronesia), Tarawa (Kiribati), and further south in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea ports. This was because the seiner operations were concentrated close to the EEZs of these PNA nations.