Strategy of the Caribbean: A Panama Canal strategy may include transshipment opportunities. Using Caribbean ports might quicken supply chain flows

摘要

Sometime in approximately the next 18 months, the Panama Canal expansion project will be complete and a deeper, wider third lane and new system of locks will allow passage of the largest ships in the world. The Panama Canal expansion means more opportunities and new trade routes with Asian markets that, until now, depended heavily upon West Coast ports as the gateway into the United States. As a result of the canal expansion, ports along the U.S. Gulf and East Coast have spent much of die last decade ramping up their on-dock and landside infrastructure in anticipation of more business.