Category Archives: Strategy

Parallel Rail

 

Warren Buffett sees the rail link to Chicago as a big deal. He wants to take trucks off the road!

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At the end of this year, Warren Buffett’s solution to dwindling coal traffic will be almost complete.

Source: Warren Buffett’s Parallel Rail to Compete With Trucks | Social Post | The ELITE League

Bayonne Bridge road deck raising project delayed

Guess it will be a while till the biggest ships get to New York from the Panama Canal. Now 2019, reportedly.

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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Thursday announced a revised timeline for completing the raising of the road deck of the Bayonne Bridge between Staten Island

Source: Bayonne Bridge road deck raising project delayed | AS Daily Newsletter | AS Daily | American Shipper

Here is the original 2012 report from PONY.

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PortMiami enters ‘big ship era’ with new 50-foot harbor

Another in my line of port expansion documentations.  Note that no large cargo ships have yet committed to use the port.  So it’s totally on a bet!

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Source: PortMiami enters ‘big ship era’ with new 50-foot harbor | AS Daily Newsletter | AS Daily | American Shipper

And there’s this!

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Talk about international trade in South Florida, and many people immediately think PortMiami.

Source: Port Everglades’ record trade tops PortMiami, study shows – Sun Sentinel

See also my posts before.

Charleston -‘Top 5’ container port by 2020?  And Port of Virginia!

“The Third Coast” Port of Houston

Wild spending for expanded port capacity. Suppose we spent all that money on mass transit, or on highways. We could fix a lot of problems.