Sunday, August 6, 2017

Panama Canal expansion hasn’t impacted shipping into the U.S. as much as predicted

The $5 billion Panama Canal expansion (Panamax) opened in late June 2016, making direct access of larger ships from China and elsewhere to America’s East Coast ports more expedient.

But well before that opening, three dominant U.S. ports were engaged in large-scale growth efforts to hold onto and increase their share of that anticipated container trade.

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