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Mexico's new Seaport To Compete with U.S. Shipping
ENSENADA, Mexico (AP) -- President Felipe Calderon opened bidding Thursday for construction of a huge new seaport that could eventually compete with Los Angeles-Long Beach, the largest port complex in the United States.
Mexico's US$5 billion Punta Colonet project would transform a wind-swept bay 150 miles (240 kilometers) south of the U.S. border into a booming port city, creating an estimated 80,000 jobs, drawing freighters from Asia and funneling manufactured goods north.
You are welcome, unfortunately the project has been delayed a bit because of the global crisis
&THE TITANIC WAS UNSINKABLE-JUST LIKE THE LONGSHOREMEN
Longshoreman here in Los Angeles and Long Beach CA. better wake up and smell coffee! They flip coins for jobs and send 1/2 a crew while the other 1/2 crew goes to get another job out of the hall still being paid for work never performed . I met a high up official at a 7-11 who told me he was Evergreen's ship manager. He said they send half of a crew and need the whole crew. He said in Germany there is a guard outside the shipping dock-trucker hands the paperwork over-crosses into shipping docks and everything is automated(computerized)-3,000 jobs could be handled by less than 300! These guys are non working unions about to go bust because unions don't enforce the right to earn a living--key-word earn JUST TAKE ONE!
work at the docks is dead right now!
The Mexican port will in fact compete with business that would otherwise go to the US. I have not seen any study done on the business aspect, or fees, etc. However, knowing how expensive it is to pull into port, or even park for one day, the cost runs into the tens of thousands per day. This is the US price. I have a hunch that the fees will not be that expensive in Mexico.
The shipping lines will flock to Mexico, and there will be lines to get in not only because the port authority fees will most likely be lower, but the wages will be less as well. Nothing wrong with that, it's not like the US is exporting jobs, rather, they will have to compete better for those same jobs as international corporations have no commitment to import to US ports.
You are welcome, unfortunately the project has been delayed a bit because of the global crisis
What happened to the huge new port supposedly being built way down "south" (on the Mexican mainland). Do not recall its location..possibly in Jalisco or nearby...to be called "Lazaro Cardenas", and was going to be integrated into the Pacific shipping routes, with rail connections to Chicago, etc etc.
They can build a port in Ensenada for Mexico needs but the question is " how is the mdse or products going to enter the US without our permission and who is going to pay the COSTS of building border entries?
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What happened to the huge new port supposedly being built way down "south" (on the Mexican mainland). Do not recall its location..possibly in Jalisco or nearby...to be called "Lazaro Cardenas", and was going to be integrated into the Pacific shipping routes, with rail connections to Chicago, etc etc.
Is this still 'on'?.....or am I hallucinating?
This is what I found regarding Lazaro Cardenas
Lázaro Cárdenas is home to a deep-water seaport that handles container, dry bulk, and liquid cargo. The port handled 160,000 TEU in 2005 but is expanding to a capacity of 2.2 million TEU annually. Cargo moves to and from the port by road and rail equally, with rail service provided exclusively by Kansas City Southern Railway. The port is expected to become a major container facility due to congestion at the U.S. ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and its relative proximity to major cities such as Chicago, Kansas City, and Houston. In preparation for the port's increased capacity, railway and highway infrastructure running north-south through the center of Mexico has been upgraded in recent years to handle the anticipated increase in volume of goods bound for the United States using this transportation corridor. If a proposed government-backed Pacific port is built at Punta Colonet, Baja California, goods flowing to US states like Arizona and Nevada could bypass the congested Los Angeles region with closer access those markets, providing increased competition with Lázaro Cárdenas
Regarding Punta Colonet, which is the other megaport that will be built, it was delayed a bit because of the current crisis but here is the most recent update:
Mexico's largest construction firm, ICA (BMV, NYSE: ICA), does not expect the 50bn-peso (US$3.26bn) Punta Colonet port project, in Baja California state, to be tendered before 2010, the firm's VP of administration and finance, Alonso Quintana, told BNamericas.
"Punta Colonet has been delayed considerably, as it is a very, very large project involving building railroads to adequately handle containers and have them sent to the US," Quintana said. "We do not expect to see any bidding rules or documents published before next year."
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