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Panama Canal June 2016. Are you Ready ?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by brodgers, Apr 8, 2016.

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  1. Apr 8, 2016 #1
    brodgers

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    Does anyone have an idea how the expanded Panama Canal will affect the small owner-operator. Shipping lanes will shift, East to West rail will shift. It will affect the Midwest a lot. Sounds like it could be a positive opportunity for the O/O. We sure aren't hearing much.
    I may be paranoid... but perhaps that's why the spot market is offering stupid/crazy rates of 1.50 or less to go to crap places. Squeezing small carriers out of business may be a motive. "They " have already flooded the market with cheap, cheap drivers, insurance and most costs have increased for the small carrier. I'm seeing lots of equipment for sale. But then again, maybe it's just the dead economy
     
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  3. Apr 8, 2016 #2
    Prom Night Dumpster Baby

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    Who the heck wants to yank cans out of East Coast ports? Or West Coast for that matter?
     
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  4. Apr 8, 2016 #3
    Chinatown

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    Should be more freight coming out of and going in to the Houston ports.
    Predicted to be a big deal for Houston as shipping companies want to avoid dealing with the Longshoremen union all along the West Coast.
     
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  5. Apr 8, 2016 #4
    mp4694330

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    Is there no union in TX ports?
     
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  7. Apr 8, 2016 #5
    brodgers

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    Well, there will far less freight moving west to east on trains....... More Cans/ vastly more freight will be coming to East ports, as well as Miami & New Orleans. Check out the billions of $ these ports have invested to accept these bigger ships. The trains don't have north to south rails as much as they have the east to West so trucks will be picking up the slack for some time. Intermodal is just the first step. I believe the Midwest will be impacted in a big way. Chinese steel will be at these southern ports ? , maybe going to Memphis. And commodities don't stay in containers for long, they have to move from warehouses ect. All of this is guesses and projections.. BUT , things will be different. I just can't figure out why the trucking industry is so quiet about all this.
     
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    Chinatown

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    Not all the Houston ports are unionized. Some are Longshoremen though. Steamship companies don't want to deal with the union ports if they can avoid it. The Longshoremen on the West Coast gave all port workers a bad reputation.
     
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  9. Apr 8, 2016 #7
    Little Eddy

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  10. Apr 8, 2016 #8
    Little Eddy

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    A construction boondoggle funded by international banks, exploited by the Panamanian government for the benefit of those in power.
    The article shows that even the shipping companies are not all that interested in the mega ships.
    Another engineering pipe dream that failed to address a changing climate or shifts in the global economy.
     
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  11. Apr 8, 2016 #9
    Hurst

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    Meh,..

    I'll continue what I do until either I retire or it runs out of tracks.

    I'll land on my feet and survive. I always do.

    Hurst
     
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  12. Apr 8, 2016 #10
    rollin coal

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    What a bunch of nonsense. Climate change? Looking to the future the expansion makes perfect logical sense. Sort of like 50 years ago 8 inbound and outbound lanes on I-75 into Atlanta was way too much but today can't handle the traffic. El Nino is not an unknown phenomenon and it looks like a few engineering solutions can overcome any drought effects.
     
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