Editing Transport in Haiti (section)

== Water transport ==
The port at Port-au-Prince, [[Port international de Port-au-Prince]], has more registered shipping than any of the over one dozen other ports in the country. Its facilities include [[Crane (machine)|crane]]s, large [[Berth (moorings)|berth]]s, and warehouses, but these facilities are in universally poor shape. The port is under-used, possibly due to the substantially higher port fees compared to ports in the [[Dominican Republic]].

The port of [[Saint-Marc]] is currently the preferred port of entry for consumer goods entering Haiti. Reasons for this may include its location away from volatile and [[Traffic congestion|congested]] Port-au-Prince, as well as its central location relative to a large number of Haitian cities, including [[Cap-Haïtien]], [[Carrefour, Haiti|Carrefour]], [[Delmas, Ouest|Delmas]], [[Desarmes]], [[Fonds-Parisien]], [[Fort-Liberté]], [[Gonaïves]], [[Hinche]], [[Artibonite (department)|Artibonite]], [[Limbé, Nord|Limbe]], [[Pétion-Ville]], [[Port-de-Paix]], and [[Verrettes]]. These cities, together with their surrounding areas, contain about six million of Haiti's eight million people.

The islands of Île-à-Vâche, Île de la Tortue, Petite and Grand Cayemite, Grosse Caye, and Île de la Gonâve are reachable only by ferry or small sailing boat (except for Île de la Gonâve, which has an airstrip that is rarely used). The majority of towns near the coast of Haiti are also accessible primarily by small sailing boats.  Such boats are usually cheaper and more available than is public ground transportation, which is commonly limited to trucks loaded with merchandise and passengers on market days.

Haiti has 150&nbsp;km of navigable waterways.

===Ports and harbors===
[[Cap-Haïtien]], [[Gonaïves]], [[Jacmel]], [[Jérémie]], [[Les Cayes]], [[Miragoâne]], Port-au-Prince, [[Port-de-Paix]], [[Saint-Marc]], [[Fort-Liberté]]

===History===
Haiti has one of the oldest maritime histories in the Americas. The [[Panama Canal Railway]] Company ran a shipping line with three [[ocean liner]]s that traveled between New York City (US) — Port-au-Prince (Haiti) — [[Cristóbal, Colón|Cristobal]] (Panama). The company had facilities in Port-au-Prince and their ocean liners stopped there. The three ocean liners were SS ''Panama'' (maiden voyage 26 April 1939), [[USS Ancon (AGC-4)|SS ''Ancon'']] (maiden voyage 22 June 1939) and SS ''Cristobal'' (maiden voyage 17 August 1939).