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To: bestintxas

You better believe that this will impact Class 1 railroads currently moving containerload after containerload of cheap plastic fake vomit and dogshit from China to the east coast by the doublestack trainload.

Hopefully, by that time our economy will go back to producing things so that rail traffic can be taking produced goods, raw materials, and commodities to our ports to ship out to the world.


24 posted on 07/10/2014 6:32:16 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala
I hate to disappoint you. See Post #29.

An interesting development in global trade is that traditional sources of manufactured products in northern Asia (Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and now northern mainland China) are now considered "expensive" production locations. They're slowly losing their market share to countries in southern Asia like Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia. The interesting dynamic here as it relates to U.S. trade is that shipping directly to the East Coast via the Suez Canal becomes much more cost-effective than trans-Pacific shipping.

30 posted on 07/10/2014 7:00:07 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
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