The Expansion of the Panama CanalFriday, June 18, 2010 Full document with the Proposal for the Expansion of the Panama Canal - Third Set of Locks Project The third set of locks project is a plan to expand the Canal’s capacity composed of three integrated components: Maersk Will Continue Operating Through Panama CanalTuesday, April 16, 2013 Modification of two routes to pass through the Suez Canal is temporary, until works have been completed on the Panama Canal expansion. So stated by Ariel Frias, marketing and communications manager of Maersk Line, a company which has used the waterway for over 90 years as a route to transport goods to different continents. New Plans for Puerto CalderaWednesday, November 27, 2019 Along with the possibility of investing $350 million in the construction of new facilities in the Puerto Caldera, in Costa Rica, comes the promise of more competitive maritime service rates. The interest in developing the terminal expansion project has been expressed by SPC, the current concessionaire of the Costa Rican Pacific maritime terminal, and by DP World, the UAE state port company, companies that would invest in the construction of 800 meters of berthing area at a depth of 16 meters. Acceleration of Maritime Procedures in PanamaThursday, September 21, 2017 The new maritime single window promises to speed up the transhipment process, improve port exit times and reduce the use of paper through a digital system. From a statement issued by the Panama Canal Authority: Panama: Complaints Over Food Transfer RatesTuesday, April 5, 2016 The maritime union has requested a reconsideration of the transshipment tariffs governing food from the 1st of April, as it represents 48% more on operating costs. From a statement issued by the Maritime Chamber of Panama: Less Connectivity, More Expensive ProductsMonday, August 12, 2019 Since mid-July, the main companies transporting maritime cargo from the Port of Santa Tomas in Guatemala stopped operating the direct route to Europe, which will raise between 20% and 25% the costs of imports and exports. After six decades of keeping the direct route to European ports in operation, the main shipping companies departing from Puerto Santo Tomás de Castilla in Izabal such as Maersk, Hamburg Sud, MSC, CMA-CGM, Hapas Lloyd and Sea Trade, decided not to re-operate the route concerned, leaving only one company with a multipurpose transport ship as an option to move cargo to Europe. Transit through the Expanded Panama CanalMonday, August 29, 2016 There has been an increases in traffic of neopanamax ships, which now produce revenues of $68 million, as well as extra maritime services that used to go through the Suez Canal. An article on Prensa.com reports that "... During the first two months of operation of the expanded Canal 130 neopanamax ships were reported to have passed through, most of them container ships, bringing in total revenues of $68 million. Since the expanded Canal opened on June 26, business has been growing, with 2 new services coming from the Suez Canal, said the Canal Administrator Jorge Luis Quijano." Two New Pacific Shipping ServicesThursday, April 16, 2009 MSC shipping announced 2 new services connecting North, Central and South America on the Pacific coast. In a press release, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company said that the service called "Puma" will run between the US, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama. It will connect the ports of Balboa, Long Beach, Oakland, Manzanillo and Puerto Caldera with weekly services and Salina Cruz, Mazatlan, Quetzal and Acajutla every two weeks.
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Laninco is an Anglo Costa Rican freight forwarder with much experience in the field of moving small, LCL, container or Heavy Lift Project Cargo. Suez Canal Cheaper than Panama CanalMonday, March 25, 2013 The company Maersk Line has restructured its service between Asia and the U.S., using the Suez Canal rather than the Panama Canal, mainly for reasons of profitability. This was the justification given by Sobren Skou, chief executive of the company, in a statement to The Australian Financial Review. Logistics Costs Rising: Companies Aim at BrazilThursday, June 17, 2021 As a result of the global trade imbalance that has become evident in the last year and the considerable increase in logistics costs, Guatemalan importers are beginning to look to Brazil as an option to replace purchases from Chinese companies. In early March of this year, CentralAmericaData reported that as a result of the imbalance faced by world trade flows, shipping lines have changed their routes and prefer to move empty containers to Asia, a situation that at that time already generated shortages and caused increases in transport rates. Logistics Mismatch Pushing Costs UpwardFriday, March 5, 2021 Due to the imbalance in world trade flows, shipping lines have changed their routes and prefer to move empty containers to Asia, a situation that generates shortages and causes increases in freight rates and raw material prices. In this scenario of new commercial reality, the operating costs of maritime freight have been impacted, since due to the restrictions imposed in several countries around the world, containers have been stranded. Will there be a Cargo Ferry Between La Union and Caldera?Wednesday, October 12, 2016 In addition to the bureaucracy delaying the project, there is now also an assessment by the shipping company that will provide the service, in order to find a way to "make it profitable." The project which was announced with great fanfare by the Solis administration one year ago, has not only failed to advance because of the need to modify the regulations on multimodal transport services, but also because now the Odiel shipping company is looking for customers and evaluating the expected profitability of the business, according to government representatives. |
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