INFRASTRUCTURES * USA & Canada - Port of Long Beach Begins Major Expansion Project

Dredging over 17 months aims to deepen channel to 76 feet, add land capacity

Long Beach,CAL,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bill Mongelluzzo -Jun 8, 2010: -- The Port of Long Beach on Tuesday launched a $40 million project to deepen its main access channel so the largest vessels in use today will be able to proceed directly to berth... The 17-month project will deepen the main channel to 76 feet. Large oil tankers, which now must transfer some product to smaller vessels before proceeding to berth, will be able to call at the British Petroleum terminal fully laden... About 1.5 million cubic feet of dredged material will be used to create a 12-acre landfill site at the Pier G container terminal operated by International Transportation Service Inc.... Long Beach Mayor, Bob Foster, who addressed a gathering at the port, said the main channel deepening project is part of the port’s 10-year, $3 billion program to expand marine terminals and infrastructure in order to improve efficiency at the nation’s second largest container port... (Image from mxsocal.org: POLB Port Map)


* Canada - Province reduces trade barriers in trucking industry

Saskatchewan,Canada -Government of Saskatchewan -June 8, 2010: -- The provincial government is reducing barriers to trade by investing $1.6 million to develop high clearance trucking corridors for transporting over-dimension loads... High clearance highways make it easier to do business in Saskatchewan by offering efficient and cost-effective transportation of over dimension loads. These corridors allow over-sized loads to be trucked without the need to raise or temporarily cut utility lines and other structures. The corridors will run from Saskatoon to the Alberta border on Hwy 7 and Melville to Rosetown via Highways 15 and 4... (Image from esask.uregina.ca)