“ It will make things even worse at the ports and is going to be wild to watch it play out”.
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Seems to me that greater use should be made of the Panama Canal. Additional cost of the Canal would be offset by cost of sitting for months waiting to unload at LA or Long Beach. Additionally, if suppliers would load their container ships by destination, say west coast, Gulf of Mexico, east coast, it would greatly reduce land transport cost. Also would reduce cycle time of returning Container hauler time and cost, especially being that a large percent of them must dead-head back to a port to pick up another outbound load.
Many ports cannot handle the largest container ships due either to ship size, port depth, crane height, etc.
The largest container ships (the most profitable at 24 containers wide) are too big to go though the Canal which can only handle ships 20 wide with the new upgrade. These ships would have to go a round the Cape to get to the US East Coast
I keep saying we need to dig a canal across our southern border. It would be a wall that would pay for itself. Screw the enviromentalists.