Panamá: ‘hub’ de redistribución de vehículos
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Panamá: ‘hub’ de redistribución de vehículos
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
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The canal is critical to the U.S. economy and trade. The U.S. is the largest user of the Panama Canal, with total U.S. commodity export and import containers representing about 73% of Panama Canal traffic, and 40% of all U.S. container traffic traveling through the Panama Canal every year. In all, roughly $270 billion in cargo is handled annually.
Panama Canal says shipping rebound is underway after record drought
These new ports, by and large, were privately managed, and in some cases privately financed. Their creation was a deliberate response to the economics of container shipping, in which keeping the ship moving is what matters most. Only the biggest ports are worth a time-consuming stop: in 2014, 46 percent of world container shipments moved through ju
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Work with the natural order. Every ship passing through the Panama Canal must be raised 85' over the natural terrain, and lowered 85' to meet the ocean on the other side. This feat is accomplished without any pumps. Gravity moves millions of gallons of water from mountain lakes down to the lock chambers. As long as precipitation refills the lakes,
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These two unrelated developments—the rise of New York, the neglect of Tampa and Mobile—revealed the economics that would affect seaports as container shipping grew. For ports, capturing container traffic was going to be expensive, requiring investments out of all proportion to what had come before. For ship lines, the days when vessels meandered al
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