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To: grundle

Are there not ports in Texas and Florida that can handle these ships?


15 posted on 10/15/2021 4:55:45 PM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

Yes but the ships from the Pacific have to go through the Panama Canal (and pay China $200,000+ per ship) to get to the Gulf or Atlantic ports. Amazon, Walmart, and others already made arangements to do this when they realized what the California emissions changes were going to do to the West Coast ports.


36 posted on 10/15/2021 6:05:50 PM PDT by Dave Wright
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To: Kartographer

The container port of Ensenada Mexico, 110km below the border of US, runs trains to the US. They are not as big but it is a work around. Problem is the ships waiting cannot switch to a foreign port from where their cargo was bound.


41 posted on 10/15/2021 6:38:48 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Kartographer

Sure, but Panama Canal passage would jack the shipping cost.


43 posted on 10/15/2021 6:58:32 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Kartographer

In addition to the already mentioned panama complications, you are also adding UN planned for loads to those ports over and above what they may already be dealing with.


56 posted on 10/16/2021 5:46:53 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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