It's getting pretty obvious that the American and Canadian trucker are facing some pretty stiff competition.Looks like they want to reduce trucking to a primarily local, low wage industry.


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Canada has announced a plan to extend the NAFTA Superhighway network north in a way that would finish a continental grid designed to accommodate an anticipated tsunami of containers from China and the Far East.
The Canadian Intelligent Super Corridor, or CISCOR, is a national transportation route designed to reach from the West Coast ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert to Montreal and Halifax.
As WND has documented, recent articles [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. and [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. magazines have attempted to characterize the NAFTA Superhighway as a "conspiracy theory."
Yet, the CISCOR case study provides strong evidence that the continent's ports, highways and rail lines are being reconfigured into an inter-modal system emphasizing technological logistics and "inland smart ports" designed to meet the demands of world trade, largely driven by the relocation of North American manufacturing to China.
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Inter-modal is a transportation economics reference to containers that can be transported on several different modes of transportation, including container ships, trucks and trains, without having to be unloaded or repacked.
According to the [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. , the Saskatchewan-based CISCOR Inland Port Network of the cities of Regina, Saskatoon and Moose Jaw is designed to serve "as the central logistics and coordination hub, creating a Canadian east-west land bridge connecting three major North American north-south corridors: [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. , or NASCO, the [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. , or CANAMEX, and the [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. ."


A multi-color North American continental map on the CISCOR website leaves no doubt the Canadian super corridor is designed to interface with the NAFTA Superhighway, extending down into Mexico.
The CISCOR map strongly models the continental map displayed by NASCO on the trade group's website in 2005.
The CISCOR website confirms an [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. documenting the Canadian national transportation plan to open Prince Rupert and Vancouver as deep-water ports capable of handling the new class of 12,500 container-capacity post-Panamax ships now being built for China.


The CISCOR strategy falls under the umbrella of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. as defined by Transport Canada, the Canadian counterpart to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
WND previously documented how the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railroads are included in Canada's Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative, positioned to operate as NAFTA railroads.
Under the CISCOR plan, the Saskatchewan cities are defined as an "inland smart port," as are [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. , [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. and [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. in the U.S.
The CISCOR website cites the University of Texas Center for Transportation research to define an inland port as follows: "An Inland Port is a physical site located away from traditional land, air and coastal borders with the vision to facilitate and process international trade through strategic investment in multi-modal transportation assets and by promoting value-added services as goods move through the supply chain."
The plan to make the Saskatchewan cities an inland port centers on utilizing the West Coast deep-water ports in British Columbia as the input point for millions of containers from China and the Far East.
American companies have [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. , despite [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. .
Reconfiguring the transportation infrastructure of North America into NAFTA Superhighways or Super Corridors drastically reduces the cost of transporting the containers from China
A quick look at the continental map shows the physical location of the Saskatchewan cities qualifies them to be an "inland port" because the area can function as a switching center, with easy access either to CANAMEX or to what [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. , the complex of Interstate Highways 35, 29 and 94.
Containers can be unloaded by crane in Saskatchewan and placed in giant warehouses. There they await pick-up by truck or train to be transported to the next regional warehouse for delivery to the final destination in North America.
An inland port is considered to be a "smart port" when technology – such as Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID systems – are utilized to facilitate customs clearance, security, warehouse distribution, multi-modal trans-load operations, empty container management and advanced container logistics tracking.
As [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. , the Chinese ports management firm, Hutchison Ports Holdings, is working with Lockheed Martin in a joint venture with NASCO to place RFID sensors along I-35 to track inter-modal containers from China that enter North America through the Mexican ports of Lazaro Cardenas and Manzanillo.
An [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. archived on the CISCOR website lays out the case for developing Saskatchewan as an Inland SmartPort in the following points that begin the report's Executive Summary:

• A majority of the new containerships entering the world fleet in the next five years will be post-Panamax vessels ready to transport cargo from China, Southeast Asia and India to North American ports already strained with capacity.
• The Panama Canal is approaching operational capacity and the U.S. transportation network is struggling to meet the predicted 15 percent annual rise in Asian container traffic.
• In response to the rapid growth in North American trade, the shift in the global freight supply chain and the increased congestion at U.S. ports and along the inter-modal system, shippers are now routing a growing share of cargo via Canadian ports.

The CISCOR business report Executive Summary concludes, "Canada can serve as the North American gateway at the intersection of three powerful and shifting trade networks – the north-south North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the European-NAFTA, and the highly-utilized trans-Pacific route."
"The desired result is a fully-integrated, seamless cargo transport corridor moving cargo from the ports to rail and highways and to an inland port logistics center that serves all North American markets," the CISCOR Executive Summary concludes.
To open the connection to the European Union, CISCOR envisions extending the Canadian Intermodal Network to the east coast port of Halifax.

I don't see how you get that out of this article?

I think he is focusing on this:

The CISCOR website confirms an [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. documenting the Canadian national transportation plan to open Prince Rupert and Vancouver as deep-water ports capable of handling the new class of 12,500 container-capacity post-Panamax ships now being built for China.

I think.

It cracks me up that so many people think this is a 'conspiracy theory'..it's real people...this is the plan that the Canadian, American and Mexican governments have been working on...how is this going to work? Trucks, and/or rail I'd guess...we are moving toward a EU type configuration..it's better for business...'their' business..If I thought our government would do what will be good for both business AND people I wouldn't be so unsure of this, but I just figure it will be decided that 'the government' can't oversee this and it has to be privatized...which means, whatever is good for Globalization will be good for YOU...oh, and so far 'we' haven't had a say in this, it's just gonna happen....

GLOBALIZATION; the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capitol, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets.

KJ

On the upside I guess is that when it does happen,, Tecate and Molson will no longer be imported, so they'll be much cheaper.

myminpins-you have to look at a much larger picture than just this one article. Plans are being made for ports in Mexico. Panama Canal is being reworked by Chinese for container ships. Gov is trying to allow .13 mile Mex truck drivers to drive as they wish. Railroads are gearing up for huge increase in containers from Far east into Mex and Cent America. Also trying to run 1 person train crews. They are already doing this out of FTW. 1 1/2 mile long trains with one engineer. No conductor. Planning for un manned trains in not too distant future. The main goal of all this is to do away with what management feels is over paid labor. Remove union Longshoreman in US. Remove as many unions train crews as possible. Make trucking a low paying job so they can say we need immigrant labor to do the trucking jobs Americans won't do. Run all freight into US as far as Kansas City without ever inspecting any of it. Take honor system from Mex and China that it is all ok. No nukes. No poison dog food additives. No lead toy paint. I am not a conspiracy theorist, but there are a lot of rotten things all seeming to come together to stick it to the working man and woman in this country that all add up to more huge salaries and stock options for upper management.

Yes, BigDuker, I get it now. Not good. The middle class really seems to be disappearing in the USA. This is NOT good

what some people call planning, coordination, and foresight - others can rightfully call conspiracy.

this stuff - just doesn't happen. Its made to happen.

Not just the industries, but the american way of life will soon be at stake.
The liberal congress want the dollar to devalue, so the can go to the Amero, a joint US Canada Mexican currency. and to do this the liberals will have to trample on the constitution to make it happen, and then they can impliment their national healthcare, and all other liberal programs they can think of.

I don't know where some of this information comes from. But just so you know. Democrats don't have a majority enough to do what you think. They will need the help of the Republicans in order to pass anything. Now are you suggesting that Republicans are liberal?

Where do you get the trampling on the constitution. Democrats and liberals are always trying to expand on the constitution, not quash it. National healthcare is a questionable venture. Government intervention would not be good. But realistically, big business is also not in the individuals best health benefit. Look at the HMO scandals in the past.

I used to be a Republican, but now I always look for the best and consider myself to be an independent thinker and voter.