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| Quote: | Originally posted by chippy
| Quote: | Originally posted by k-rico
Plus, the Colonet port would increase competition for the Port of Lázaro Cárdenas and the Mexican politicians in that area (Michoacan) think it would
be best to expand what is already Mexico's largest Pacific ocean deep water port.
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That would be Manzanillo, Colima.
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Thanks, I didn't know about Manzanillo
The Port of Manzanillo
The Port of Manzanillo, located on the Pacific coast, is one of the busiest ports in Mexico, with impressive growth over the last 5 years. The
expansion of the Port of Manzanillo has received priority in the National Program for Infrastructure announced by President Calderon in July 2007.
The Port of Lazaro
The Port of Lazaro Card##as is the only port in Mexico with capacity to receive ultra large container vessels of up to 12,500 TEUs.
The port is hoping to capitalize on the overcrowding of U.S. west coast ports by offering a viable alternative for shipping products into the central
United States. To do so, the port is developing infrastructure projects and making agreements with carriers and transportation companies to become an
intermodal corridor to receive Asian containers going to the U.S.
http://www.buyusa.gov/mexico/en/transportation.html
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http://www.mediargus.be/flanderstoday.admin.en/rss/22548040....
| Quote: | Originally posted by mulegejim
| Quote: | Originally posted by k-rico
Plus, the Colonet port would increase competition for the Port of Lázaro Cárdenas and the Mexican politicians in that area (Michoacan) think it would
be best to expand what is already Mexico's largest Pacific ocean deep water port.
And the operators of US Gulf of Mexico ports (New Orleans, Mobile AL) of course want the business but the Panama Canal's insufficient lock widths are
a problem. I suppose they could be widened.
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West Coast ports band together to fight global competition
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/11/west_co...
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The Panama Canal expansion will undoubtedly be a game changer. It probably won't be finished for 4-5 years. Right now, what are known as panamax class
ships, the largest allowed to pass through, do so with minute clearances and thus transit the canal slowly, and are limited to daylight transit only.
Ships that size will speed up with the revised canal, as well as allowing a class of post-panamax ships, many already plying the seas, to use the
canal. In fact, at present, US Navy Nimitz class carriers are too big to transit the canal.
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A bit off-topic, but David McCullough's The Path Between the Seas is a fascinating book about the building of the Panama Canal. An incredible
task at the time. McCullough is a Pulitzer Prize winning historian.
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I personaly hope the colonet port never happens. the polution alone would be unbelieveable
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