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Posted on 11/06/2021 4:18:46 PM PDT by Libloather
Leaders of ports along South Florida’s coast said they’re ready to step up and help other ports around the country, as those other ports continue to experience delays and backlogs due to global supply chain issues.
The chairman of the board for the Florida Ports Council, Jonathan Daniels, said there is no congestion at the ports in Palm Beach County, Fort Lauderdale or Miami. However, he says supply chain issues are leading to delays north of Florida and on the West Coast. He says those ports are experiencing delays partly due to the fact that they supply goods for the middle of the country, unlike ports in Florida.
“They’re going into the Heartland and they’re also going across country,” Daniels said.
Leaders of ports in South Florida say while they’re always trying to bring more ships to the region, they’re now letting congested ports across the country know they can reroute traffic to South Florida to help ease congestion.
"We stand ready to assist the shippers and the carriers and make sure that they understand that there are capabilities in South Florida," Daniels said.
"What we’re offering up as a Florida Ports Council and Florida’s ports is saying, ‘OK come through the Panama Canal. Come through the Suez Canal. Instead of doing land-bridge operations where you’re involving the ports, you’re involving the rail as well as the truck for the last mile, come to Florida’s ports. Come to this side of the United States and you’re going to go into the East Coast, land in Florida and then ultimately work up through the rail and the road network in order to supply."
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SO DOES TEXAS. HOW THEY DOING?
I don’t understand.
I don’t understand.
sorry bout the caps.
CSX and Norfolk Southern have the ability to deliver containers to Chicago, which is the main interchange point between eastern and western railroads. Granted, rail cars can get lost in the bowels of Chicago's rail yards for some time, but that can be fixed.
Interstates 10 and 95 can get containers moving onto our highway system with ease.
A little imagination and willingness can get things moving to the right places.
And, Florida ports are great for goods sourced from anything on the Atlantic. However, to get the goods from China would require a trip around South America as it’s doubtful the new cargo ships can make it through the Panama Canal. So, it takes from two weeks to a month to get a cargo ship from China to California. It would probably take double that to get one from China to Florida, plus the tip of South America is a very dangerous route. In addition, a lot of cargoes will be damaged by mold if in the ship any longer than they already are.
I think Jacksonville is the southernmost Florida port served by NS. Anything south of there is going to ride on either CSX or FEC.
BN and UP serve Gulf ports as far east as New Orleans. KCS (soon to be part of CP, if it isn't already) goes to Mobile. CN gets to Mobile as well on the old IC-GMO lines.
The Florida ports aren't major container ports. New York, Virginia, Charleston and Savannah are the big Atlantic container ports. Brunswick appears to be mainly RoRo, with Jacksoville and Baltimore being big RoRo players. Top 10 list for containers here: https://container-news.com/top-10-the-busiest-container-ports-in-the-united-states/
The old Panamax chips could only carry 5,000 TEU containers (20 fott containers)
Since the Chinese took over the canal, it's been expanded and Neo Panamax ships can carry 14,000 TEU. Maximum length for container ships went from about 950 feet to over 1200 feet. Width went up from about 106 feet to over 160 feet. NeoPanamax is longer but narrower than Chinamax.
So, will the container ships coming across the Pacific (or now in the L.A./L.B. harbor) be able to fit through the Panama canal?
CSX and Norfolk Southern have the ability to deliver containers to Chicago
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Ability yes ; adequate number of people to unload the containers, no ; adequate number of truckers to truck them away, no ; adequate number of warehouse workers to unload the trucks, no.
Super containers are 24 TEU
So, will the container ships coming across the Pacific (or now in the L.A./L.B. harbor) be able to fit through the Panama canal?
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The maximum allowable capacity of the canal is 37 to 42 ship transits per day.
So it would take over 3 days just to clear the Long Beach back up another 3 for LA. then they would have to go to ports that have the capacity to handle them. The question then is which ports other than New York-New Jersey can handle many container ships larger than 5000 containers which is most of them from Asia ; Port Authority of New York did one at 16,000 but that is smaller than the 20-24,000 sizes the west coast handles.
Smaller ships means lower cargo per ship, means more ships needed to carry the excess, means higher shipping prices on top of the extra expense of Asian ships unloading on the east coast.
Port of Tampa Bay (the largest in Florida) can only handle container ships of 10,000 per - too small to make a dent.
Standard containers are 20 or 40 foot. Shipping and storage capacity are measured based on the 20 TEU. Standard height is 8.5 feet. There are tall containers (9.5 feet) and long ones at 48 feet, Width is 8 feet. There probably are some 24s out there as half 48, but it would be an unusual box for international shipping.
There are at least twelve 24s. Likely more are being built or at least contemplated. Most of the Chinamax ships are too big for Tampa which can only handle 10s, and the canal can only handle 14s. The 14s would have to go to NY-NJ, which is already backed up.
Anything coming from Asia over l4 to 16 would have to go the long way around - assuming the cargo would not suffer from the extra time.
So again Florida would not be much of a help, if any, on the shipping backlog.
I meant the physical size of the ships, not the canal throughput.
Port Tampa is open and ready and has trucks and rail connections. Time to ‘do the Panama’...
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from link:
The Panama Canal announced last week the successful completion of a transit test of the container ship Tritón, of the Evergreen shipping company, the largest container vessel to transit the expanded Canal since its opening in June 2016.
The neopanamax Triton established a new record of total TEU capacity in the Canal, at 15,313 TEUs. The ship is 51.2 meters wide and 369 meters long, and transited in a north direction from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.
“We are excited about the opportunities provided by the Triton transit test,” said Panama Canal Administrator Jorge Luis Quijano.
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