{"id":1702,"date":"2020-01-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2020-06-15T17:24:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T22:24:50","slug":"shifting-trade-routes-shape-seaports-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/22\/shifting-trade-routes-shape-seaports-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifting Trade Routes Shape Seaports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shifting trade routes present a challenge to seaports whose strategies and investments in infrastructure and services are shaped by trade flows <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

* By Lori Musser*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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History has been made by trade. In earlier times, gaining access to silk, spices, tea, salt and other precious commodities triggered rebellion, kindled colonization and created fortunes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aggregation of products\nby origin, waypoint and destination and their shipment from mode to mode along\na predetermined path creates critical trade routes, every last one of which is\ntemporary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trade routes shift. Constantly. That presents a challenge to seaports whose strategies and investments in infrastructure and services are shaped by trade flows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diverse Drivers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Seaports carefully study\nmyriad, often subtle, drivers of trade. Sometimes two neighboring ports find\ntheir business on similar trades moving inversely because of the vagaries of\nservice, consumption, geography, pricing, weather and many other factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Morris, communications director for Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), said, \u201cSometimes, it just isn\u2019t possible to explain peaks and troughs in cargo throughput. There are many factors at play.\u201d So ports prepare as best they can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Alpha Shifts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Joshua Hurwitz, with global infrastructure firm Moffatt & Nichol, described dominant trade route\ntrends impacting North America. \u201cThe Asia-North\nAmerica trade lane is now the largest single trade lane in the world, surpassing\nAsia-Europe in 2013. Its growth is due to\na combination of a robust U.S. economy and the rapid development of Asia,\u201d said\nHurwitz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Canada East Coast-Europe trade lane, the new Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement has helped reel in three consecutive years of strong growth. \u201cThe Port of Montreal TEU volume increased 9% last year alone and appears on track to end 2019 with 20% higher volumes than before the trade agreement,\u201d said Hurwitz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shifting trade routes present a challenge to seaports whose strategies and investments in infrastructure and services are shaped by trade flows * By Lori Musser* History has been made by trade. In earlier times, gaining access to silk, spices, tea, salt and other precious commodities triggered rebellion, kindled colonization and created fortunes. The aggregation of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":1701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,441,442],"tags":[322,330,323,327,337,175,341,335,332,183,320,216,325,342,321,255,331,343,344,336,338,63,328,51,326,13,333,319,181,346,334,339,340,345,324,329],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-infrastructure","category-leadership","tag-baltimores-howard-tunnel","tag-cma-cgm","tag-comprehensive-economic-and-trade-agreement","tag-cosco","tag-crowley-maritime","tag-georgia-ports-authority","tag-hapag-lloyd","tag-ilya-marotta","tag-imo-2020","tag-jaxport","tag-joshua-hurwitz","tag-maersk","tag-mason-mega-intermodal","tag-mediterranean-shipping-company","tag-moffatt-nichol","tag-msc","tag-noel-hacegaba","tag-northern-sea-route","tag-nsr","tag-panama-canal","tag-panama-canal-authority","tag-port-of-long-beach","tag-port-of-mobile","tag-port-of-oakland","tag-port-of-savannah","tag-port-tampa-bay","tag-portmiami","tag-robert-morris","tag-robert-peek","tag-shifting-trade-routes","tag-suez-canal","tag-tote-maritime-puerto-rico","tag-trailer-bridge","tag-venta-maersk","tag-wade-elliott","tag-zim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}