The Fickle Asian Container: California's Ports  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 402 no. 8769 (Jan. 2012), page 34-35.
Topik: Maritime industry; Canals; Inter-modal transportation; Container ships; Competition; International trade

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Into San Pedro Bay they pull, the huge ships from Asia, each with thousands of containers full of lawn chairs, toys or iPads. As they enter the bay they go left, to the Port of Los Angeles (America's largest), or right, to the Port of Long Beach (the second-largest): geographically and logistically, the two are one harbour, even though rival cities operate them in competition. Gantry cranes then unload the containers onto trucks. About half go to consumers in the urban sprawl of southern California. But the other half are driven a few miles to a railway yard, where they are put on eastbound trains to the rest of America. That part of the business is now at risk, and with it tens of thousands of regional jobs. The risk comes from the Panama Canal, which the Panamanians are digging wider and deeper. In an inexorable shipbuilding trend, each generation of freighters is larger than the previous one. So the canal today accommodates only ships that carry up to about 5,000 containers, whereas large freighters already carry 12,000, and the largest carry even more. This is why it is currently best to move a box from Guangdong Province to New York by floating it to Los Angeles or Long Beach, then putting it on a train. But the digging in Panama is about to change that calculation.

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