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* Texas - Why Texas-Mexico trade corridors keep on trucking
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* DC - Port Authorities warn land connections to seaports ‘deteriorating’
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Additional funding for Detroit River International Crossing
Ottawa,ONT,Canada -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Courtney Tower -Apr 30, 2010: -- Canada offered the state of Michigan up to $550 million as a sweetener to get the legislature to give final approval to the building of a controversial new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario... The Canadian government is willing to increase its share of the cost of the proposed Detroit River International Crossing by that amount, Federal Transport Minister, John Baird, said Thursday... The DRIC would effectively replace the venerable and storied Ambassador Bridge, by far the busiest commercial crossing between the two countries. It is controversial in Michigan politics. Defenders of the new bridge support building it two miles from the Ambassador Bridge. Opponents support Ambassador owner Manuel Moroun, who wants to twin the existing bridge with a new span at the present site. Moroun has launched a series of suits against Michigan and the U.S. and Canadian federal governments, saying he is illegally being harried out of business... Baird said this one crossing sees more than 8,000 trucks and 68,000 travelers daily, handling almost 30 percent of all Canada-U.S. trade per year. “In the next 30 years, truck traffic along this corridor is expected to triple and vehicle traffic will double," he said...Labels: border infrastructures
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Infrastructure funding, regulatory reform needed to smooth trade flow, says Celadon’s Russell
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce, by William B. Cassidy -Oct 22, 2009: -- More federal funding and more “reasonable” regulation are needed to speed freight across the U.S. border, says the chief of one of the largest cross-border trucking operations in the U.S... In particular, more “Free and Secure Trade” lanes are needed to speed freight between the U.S. and Canada, the largest U.S. trading partner, Stephen Russell, chairman and CEO of Celadon Group, told a House subcommittee today... Few FAST lanes extend far back from the port of entry, he said, with most beginning a few yards before the initial inspection booth. That means truckers meant to benefit from the FAST lanes are stuck in traffic with other vehicles until shortly before their arrival at the border...Labels: border infrastructures
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FALCON reported at a forum this week that existing infrastructure would no unable to cater to the region’s growing mining industry
Sydney,NSW,Australia -The Road Freight News -7 August 2009: -- The Freight and Logistics Council of NSW (FALCON) have announced road networks may be incapable of fulfilling central western NSW’s future freight needs... A central west group has been established to investigate ways to improve freight transport and handling to cope with the region's output... The forum was attended by representatives from companies such at SCT Freight Transporters and Rio Tinto... Some companies had complained their exports had not made it to ports on time, leading international customers to question reliability...Labels: border infrastructures
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Windsor,ONT,Canada -The Journal of Commerce, by Courtney Tower -Jul 20, 2009: -- Canada on July 20 put up the cash to bring a publicly-owned bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, "one step closer" to fruition despite legal and lobbying challenges from the U.S. owner of the present Ambassador Bridge... After years of dispute and controversy, the governments of the United States, Canada, Michigan and Ontario decided to build a replacement bridge two miles from the 80-year-old Ambassador Bridge, owned by industrialist Manuel Moroun of Grosse Point, Mich. They chose the site over the opposition of Moroun, who is trying to go ahead with his own construction of a six-lane twin span to the Ambassador, connecting the existing plazas of Detroit and Windsor... (Photo by John in Mich @ Fickr: Canadian government plans new span despite dispute with owner of Ambassador Bridge)Labels: border infrastructures
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Tashkent,Uzbekistán -Jahon news agency /ANTARA News/Asia Pulse -25 Feb 2009: -- Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are actively cooperating to develop and strengthen transport infrastructure by designing and using new economically profitable routes, Jahon news agency reports... Both countries' car and railway networks form economic competitive transnational transport corridors which connect Central Asian countries with the world's major markets. "The Navoi-Turkmenbashi-Baku-Kars transport route is the most perspective amongst transport routes. This route enables to provide access to markets of Europe, North Africa and Middle East. At present Uzbekistan enters Iran through the Turkmen Serakhs city and delivers some part of its exports to world markets," Jahon reported...
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Vancouver,BC,USA -The Vancouver Sun, by Gordon Hamilton -January 19, 2009: -- The loss of the Pattullo Bridge is taking its toll on the region's trucking businesses, where drivers are spending wasted hours caught in traffic jams caused by motorists diverting to other routes... From Port Metro Vancouver, where pick-up and delivery turn-around times were being monitored Monday to determine the impact of the traffic chaos, to individual trucking lines, who are spending more time on the road, there will be a business cost to the bridge closure... (Picture: Pattullo-from-skyt)Labels: border infrastructures
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President Calderon will open bidding for infrastructure contracts Thursday. The project is likely to transform the village of Punta Colonet
Mexico,DF,MEJ -The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles,CAL,USA), By Marla Dickerson -August 28, 2008: -- Mexico's government is setting sail with the largest infrastructure project in the nation's history, a $4-billion seaport that it hopes will one day rival those of Los Angeles and Long Beach... President Felipe Calderon is scheduled to travel to northern Baja California today to open bidding on a development that his administration hopes will catapult Mexico into a major player in North American logistics...
Plans call for the construction of a massive port in the tiny coastal village of Punta Colonet, about 150 miles south of Tijuana, along with new rail lines to whisk Asian-made goods north to the United States. Mexico's aim is to snatch some Pacific cargo traffic from Southern California's ports, whose growth is constrained by urban development and environmental concerns... Punta Colonet is expected to have a capacity of 2 million shipping containers annually when it opens in 2014, Mexico's transportation secretariat told The Times. But officials envision it ultimately handling five times that amount. Last year, the ports of L.A. and Long Beach handled 15.7 million containers combined... (Photo by Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times - Claudia Bertelli, a visitor from San Diego, enjoys the view from Punto Colonet. Mexico's government hopes to jump-start the construction of a port at the site that can handle millions of shipping containers annually)Labels: border infrastructures
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Truckers who cross the U.S.-Mexico border south of Yuma, AZ, will soon have access to a new roadway and a new commercial port of entry
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Inland distribution points possible
Toledo,OH,USA -The Toledo Blade, by DAVID PATCH -May 4, 2008: -- A proposed container port on the Nova Scotia coast could hold a key to Toledo's future as a potential ocean-container distribution center... Representatives of Melford International Terminal Inc., a Canadian company that has obtained 315 waterfront acres along the Strait of Canso, met last week with Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland to outline their proposal for a deepwater container port that is intended to capitalize on North America's growing trade with Asia, which is resulting in congestion at existing ports on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts... While the Melford proposal anticipates that a majority of the freight handled there would make the inland portion of its journey by rail, Terry Johnson, Jr., administrator of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp., said the port could become a relay point for smaller container vessels that would transport freight between Nova Scotia and Ohio via the St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes... Project planners hope to be in operation by 2010 and have an initial capacity to handle 1.5 million TEUs - an industry measurement of container capacity - annually. The largest container ships now in use have capacities of between 10,000 and 12,000 TEUs...Labels: border infrastructures
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Windsor,ONT,CAN -Todays' Trucking -18 Feb 2008: -- The company is vying to manage a public-private "truck marshalling yard" being proposed by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation in Windsor, Sarnia-Port Huron, and fort Erie-Buffalo. The facility -- to be located on the outskirts east of Windsor, off of Highway 401 -- would act as the staging area for a complete "trade corridor management system"... The theory is that a truck marshalling yard in the Windsor-Essex area would reduce border queuing by ensuring all truckers' administrative and Customs reporting info is completed before approaching the border... Once cleared, the trucks would be metered through en route to the border, resulting in more efficient flow and less trucks idling close to homes and businesses inside the city...Labels: border infrastructures
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Washington,DC,USA -Today's Trucking (Canada) -27 Nov 2007: -- The governments of Canada and America have released a joint study that examines the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway system as a vital transportation resource for both countries... The study guides both nations to maintain the marine artery, support trade and protect local ecosystems, added U.S. Transport Secretary Mary E. Peters... The seaway system has the capacity to carry twice the volume of its current traffic, stakeholders say, and could be better used in combination with rail and trucking operations to provide a more efficient, effective and environmentally friendly way to transport goods... (Photo: The underutilized St. Lawrence Seaway could be one of world's most strategic waterways)Labels: border infrastructures
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