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NAURU<br />
KIRIBATI<br />
SOLOMAN<br />
ISLANDS<br />
WALLIS &<br />
FUTUNA<br />
VANUATU<br />
FIJI<br />
AMERICAN<br />
SAMOA<br />
NEW<br />
CALEDONIA<br />
TONGA<br />
Sustainable Inter-Island trade<br />
Possible routes moving cargo sustainably<br />
between the Pacific Island Nations<br />
“Sea transport is an absolute necessity for most<br />
Oceanic communities...all current services are<br />
fossil fuel based and increasingly unaffordable and<br />
unsustainable.<br />
The Pacific region is the most dependent on imported<br />
fossil fuels in the world with Pacific Island Countries<br />
importing more than 95% of their needs. Such<br />
dependency is recognised as having a crippling effect<br />
on national budgets and revenues and impacts on key<br />
productive sectors in the region.”<br />
Dr. Peter Nuttal<br />
University of the South Pacific
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