Global Gateways

Port of Melbourne Begins Major Overhaul

April 15, 2013

Construction has begun on a three-year $1.6bn overhaul of the largest container port in Australia, with Victorian state government saying the work is necessary to avoid capacity constraints and adding that it will create around 1,100 jobs.

CMA CGM Builds Dry Port in Iraq

April 15, 2013

TransReporter

CMA CGM is set to open an inland terminal near Abu Ghraib, in the Baghdad Governorate, in June. The shipping group will exclusively manage and operate the facility, which it says will be Iraq's only dry port.

Flanders' Location Makes It a Natural Distribution Hub

April 15, 2013

Benoit Reinards, Director Investment, Flanders Investment & Trade

An Insider's View of Panama's Colon Free Trade Zone

April 12, 2013

Nelson Cabrera, Director, Business Development, Lilly and Associates

Expansion to Panama Canal Nearing the Halfway Point

April 11, 2013

Miami Herald

The Panama Canal's expansion is finally beginning to look like a channel that will float some of the biggest ships in the world by mid-2015.

Site Selection for Retail Distribution Facilities

April 11, 2013

Rich Thompson, Supply Chain & Logistics Group Director, Jones Lang LaSalle

The Supply Chain's Next Stop Is Full-Service Security Screening

April 3, 2013

Andrew Goldsmith, Vice President, Marketing Rapiscan Systems

Regardless of the goods that are being shipped - from electronics to pharmaceuticals to fruit - once released into the supply chain, they are immediately at risk. And the longer they are in transit, the more vulnerable those goods become - facing threats of terrorism, of theft, or even of a natural disaster. Until the cargo arrives safely at its final destination, there are an inordinate number of things that could jeopardize the supply chain from running smoothly.

How Bad Would It Be Were Political Strife to Close the Suez Canal?

March 22, 2013

Container Insight Weekly

All eyes are watching the deteriorating political situation in Egypt. The recent civil riots in Port Said were, arguably, too close for comfort for those dependent on the Suez Canal. Although the arterial trade route is unlikely to close, the possibility cannot be ignored.

Panama Canal Expansion to 'Stress' Intermodal Networks, Trucking Services

March 21, 2013

Inter-American Development Bank

To cope with the larger vessels that will transit through the Panama Canal when its expansion is complete in 2015, Central American countries must dramatically improve their intermodal road and port network infrastructure, the quality of their trucking services and strengthen their institutional coordination, two studies issued today by the Inter-American Development Bank show.

Data Shows February Imports Were Unusually High Year Over Year

March 20, 2013

Zepol Corp.

U.S. vessel imports are down 5 percent from January but up 15 percent from February of 2012, even with one less day this year. The total twenty-foot-container (TEU) count was over 1.4 million and total shipments were over 720,000. February imports have not reached this level for four years, which is a similar stat to what we saw in January. It appears that import levels are indeed reverting back to the numbers seen before the recession.

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