Kingston logistics park adds 18,000 sqm of port-side warehousing for global supply chains

The Government has unveiled a purpose-built logistics campus at the Port of Kingston—the Kingston Logistics Park—delivering about 18,000 square metres of warehouse and ancillary space on strategic waterfront land aimed at operators and investors in worldwide supply chains. The build-out supports a wider policy drive to deepen Jamaica’s profile in cargo transshipment, bonded storage and associated logistics services.

Land neighbouring Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited (KFTL) is reserved for port-centric warehousing and related handling that KFTL will roll forward. Authorities cast the park as an early, on-the-ground example of how contemporary sheds, digital systems and streamlined yard and gate processes can advertise the island’s logistics credentials and help pull in foreign direct investment.

The scheme sits under the Special Economic Zone Act as a flagship marine-adjacent industrial enclave pitched at multinational companies active in light manufacturing, assembly, warehousing and consumer-goods distribution. Designers stress operational metrics—dock-door counts, clear internal height, rational floor plans and immediate proximity to the quay—so the facility can function as a high-throughput third-party fulfilment hub.

Agency planners tie the project to a port-wide objective of growing a stand-alone logistics sector. They point to Jamaica’s position astride principal north–south and east–west trade lanes, a container gateway ranked among the top performers in the Caribbean and within the global top tier by throughput, and a newly completed “phase zero” structure that sharpens that competitive edge. During 2024 the island recorded roughly two million twenty-foot equivalent units moved, a throughput benchmark highlighted in the briefing, while reiterating that most external commerce still rides the sea through harbours that include what is described as the world’s seventh-largest natural roadstead, with bunkering services for deep-sea ships, including liquefied natural gas carriers.

Marketing teams are courting overseas clients and technology-intensive tenants, portraying the park as both a showcase for innovation-led trade and a practical lever to steer more commercial volume through Jamaican ports.