Marine transportation has an important role to support the national connectivity and economic growth, especially in Papua Province. Characteristics of geography on land and sea and an insufficiency of existing infrastructure in Papua encourage its development. An effort to improve Papua’s connectivity and economic growth is believed to be able to overcome the complicated problems that exist today The aim of this study was to analyze the development of marine transportation in support of national connectivity and economic growth in Papua province. The contributions of marine transportation to the economy and the growth rate of marine transportation were analyzed using approaches of contribution sector and Typology Klassen, respectively. The problems and an overview of the steps in development of marine transportation in Papua and national were analyzed qualitatively using Miles and Huberman’s method (1992). Efforts to increase the national transport connectivity were analyzed descriptively based on supporting documents. The results show thatthere has been an increase in the contribution of sub marine transport, transportation and communications in 2007-2013; The growth rate of marine transportation increased in the period 2007-2012, then was corrected in 2013; the transport sector grows rapidly, however it is very difficult to optimalyzed related to several factors, both in the central and local government, infrastructure, local human resources, local community institutions, economic analysis up to external problems; the improvement of national transport connectivity can be realized by implementing strategies stipulated in national development planning documents concerning Sislognas, Sistranas, RPJMN /RTRWN, ICT and Papua’s planning documents.
Keywords: Marine, Transportation, National Connectivity, Economic Growth