The Panama Canal is planning on being widened since its completion. Since there are virtually enormous shipments coming from Asia, there is an uncontested use of area needed for the Panama Canal. This work in progress is projected to be completed this year in 2015. So what will that do for the west coast ports? It will cause the Gulf Coast to gain jobs and seek local and federal investments. With the incidents such as Katrina, and the major oil spill, the Gulf coast could use some type of relief in that part of the country.
Ports of Embarkation
A port of Embarkation is defined as an area of a port from which cargo departs. This may be a seaport or aerial port from which merchandises flow to a port of debarkation; it may or may not coincide with the port of origin. It is also referred to the port of exit.
Infrastructures of Ports
Ports work closely not only with the …show more content…
Federal navigation projects also benefit from all maritime interest specifically from public ports.
Citations
The shift to containers and larger ships has created three profound changes in the flow of freight in the United States (Luberoff & Walder, 2008). First, the economics of containers make it more economical for shipping lines to rely on fewer, but larger ships that stop in relatively few hub ports (Luberoff & Walder, 2008). Example, post-Panamax ships – that is, container ships that are too wide to pass through the Panama Canal – made up only about six percent of the world’s available cargo-ship capacity but almost 30 % of the capacity of ships then on order; even larger mega-ships – a new class of extremely large ships with such deep drafts that they often require dredging and new docks at many major ports – contained about one percent of the world’s container shipping capacity, but made up more than eight
Ports of Embarkation
A port of Embarkation is defined as an area of a port from which cargo departs. This may be a seaport or aerial port from which merchandises flow to a port of debarkation; it may or may not coincide with the port of origin. It is also referred to the port of exit.
Infrastructures of Ports
Ports work closely not only with the …show more content…
Federal navigation projects also benefit from all maritime interest specifically from public ports.
Citations
The shift to containers and larger ships has created three profound changes in the flow of freight in the United States (Luberoff & Walder, 2008). First, the economics of containers make it more economical for shipping lines to rely on fewer, but larger ships that stop in relatively few hub ports (Luberoff & Walder, 2008). Example, post-Panamax ships – that is, container ships that are too wide to pass through the Panama Canal – made up only about six percent of the world’s available cargo-ship capacity but almost 30 % of the capacity of ships then on order; even larger mega-ships – a new class of extremely large ships with such deep drafts that they often require dredging and new docks at many major ports – contained about one percent of the world’s container shipping capacity, but made up more than eight