A new study by the US Maritime Commission on the problems with lock outages in our inland river waterways. If we don’t maintain the locks, we lose competitive advantage in agricultural products particularly; for instance costs of exporting soybeans goes up and lets Brazil become the cheapest source.
I’ve included a link to the pdf of the study below.
via NWF, MarAd release study on unscheduled lock outages
BY HAILEY DESORMEAUX |THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 02, 2017
PDF of study:
Posted in Logistics, Shipping, Supply Chains, Sustainability
Tagged agriculture, barge transport, economics, infrastructure, locks and dams, soybeans, transportation
Here is a well written story on the 300cubits ICO blockchain offering coming up. It gives some of the philosophy behind their idea.
The Hong Kong-based company 300cubits aims to partially replace U.S. dollars in the container shipping industry with a token soon to be launched on
Price wars in the canal business! Egypt cuts rates in Suez; now Panama cuts rates on its canal.
The cuts seem to be only on return voyages. Drewry’s doesn’t think much of them.
Source: Panama Canal discounts may not produce expected flood of new business – The Loadstar
Posted in Logistics, Ports, Shipping, Supply Chains
Tagged big ships, container shipping, Logistics, panama canal, supply chains
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