Suez Canal traffic has dropped 66%, Maersk claims
NewsSince shipping companies rerouted around Africa, Suez Canal traffic has dropped 66%, causing port congestion and supply chain disruptions, Maersk reports.
Another Canadian gateway study
A new study prepared for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has concluded that an integrated transport corridor could create up to 61,000 new jobs across the Atlantic Provinces by 2025. The main Canadian Atlantic ports of Halifax, St John (New Brunswick) and St John’s (Newfoundland) handled 693,000 TEU in 2006, but total growth ran at just 3.2% per year for the previous decade so they are getting left behind by USEC ports.
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