World Bank2023-05-312023-05-312023-06-29https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/39852This report has eight chapters. Following the introduction (Pacific Peoples and the Sea), the next six chapters each focus on a separate significant component of Pacific maritime transport, analyzing the major influences and challenges, and, where relevant, key areas for future attention. The topics are: international shipping, gateway ports, domestic maritime transport, four related sectors, cruise ship tourism, tuna fisheries, fossil fuel imports, and bulk shipping, natural disasters and climate resilience, and sector governance and institutions. The final chapter, transforming pacific maritime transport, ways forward, distils the report’s findings into the most significant and far-reaching opportunities to transform maritime transport in the Pacific. These are grouped into three broad themes, infrastructure, services, and governance and capacity building. Ways Forward comes at the end and, for readers unable to view the whole report, is a good place to begin. The rest of this executive summary explains why the Pacific is a special case for investment and provides a summary of the main chapters and findings. But first, it describes which Pacific Island countries contributed to the study.en-USCC BY-NC 3.0 IGOMARITIME TRANSPORTBLUE TRANSFORMATIONINTERNATIONAL SHIPPINGGATEWAY PORTSNATURAL DISASTERS AND CLIMATE RESILIENCESECTOR GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONSReport10.1596/39852