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The Worlds population is estimated to be about 7 billion People.
The world’s goods and services economy at the end of 2005 was US $7 Trillion
The US Budget in 2005 was $1.3 Trillion
The proposed US budget for 2007/08 is $2.6 trillion
Our population is a little over 300 million or about 5% of the world’s population yet the United States do between 13 and 15% of the entire world’s trade.
Canada is our biggest trading partner with 1 Billion Dollars in trade each way daily and Mexico is second with China close behind.

The world’s largest warehouse (as of the end of 2007) is the “container” with approximately 400 million TEU’s being transported in 2007 on 8.392 ships annually for just in time delivery, and growing with 15% annually.

There are almost 2,000 transport cargo planes today and it is predicted that this will double over the next 10 years.

Russia has the largest transport plane in the world! Russia transports over 200,000 containers annually over the Trans-Siberian Rail Road and this figure is expected to double.

The European EAD (Airbus) has as of (October 2007) delivered their first new large 2 deck passenger plane (However, according to a note in Financial Times the EAD is not out of the woods yet in regards to order backlog and inter country bickering plus the (2007) recent insider trading scandals.
We understand the new Panama Canal now under construction is largely financed by the Chinese.

Question is, why enlarge the canal? If we are to believe global warming, we will soon be able to sail through the Arctic Ocean crossing from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean through the North West Passage, considerably shortening the distance to the heavily populated eastern US and to Europe. At a summit meeting August 2007, President Bush, President Calderon, and Prime Minister Parker discussed the North West Passage.
Canada is now establishing an Arctic deep-sea water port on or near Ellesmere Island.
Denmark, Norway and Russia also have great stakes in the Arctic with huge oil reserves in that region.

By unloading a 15,000 TEU ship and moving the entire loa stack train d by train, the train would be 64 miles long. This will explain the new catchword “Trans-shipment Ports.” 20 such ports are now or soon will be in use with about 14 of them in the final stages of being constructed and all equipped with so called smart gantry cranes which are already installed and being used in Singapore and Hong Kong. These cranes can unload 8 containers simultaneously from the giant ships, causing various countries to scramble in order to improve their rail structure.

Mega transshipment Ports in order of annual number of TEU’s:

Shanghai - China
Hong Kong - China
Singapore - South East Asia cranes
Los Angeles/Long Beach - USA
New Ark NJ - USA
Panama City - Panama
Rotterdam - Holland
Jebel Ali - Dubai
Robert’s Banks Super Port - BC Canada
Prince Rupert BC Canada
Mundra India under construction

NOTE: in 1988 the biggest containerships could haul 5,000 TEU’s and 20 years later the new mega-ships 15,000+ TEU’s

Cargo headed for Europe through the straight of Malacca between Malaysia and Sumatra, where the depth of the sea is a bit of a problem, ships are restricted to only 65 feet of draft (20 meters). The mega ships that can negotiate this strait are called “MALACCAMAX”

Question: Maybe the sea borne explosion in container freight has something to do with the standard of living of the world population and the newly proposed US 2008 budget of $2.6 trillion.

400 million containers are being hauled annually, and the industry is growing by 12 to 15% per year?

The pertinent question is: why Guaymas Mexico?

Union Pacific’s is considering new proposed switching yards at Picacho Peak, AZ.

We have learned that Yuma, AZ is also considering developing an intermodal port similar to the Port of Tucson? To take advantage of the proposed Mexican port of Punta Collonet, this port is now scheduled for completion in 2012. However, may we again point out that there is no or little infrastructure in place, for example no rail connection and no airport.

Important: Some of these containers end up as “hot cargo”! That must reach a certain destination quickly, so it is important that these intermodal ports are located close to an international air port. Keep in mind, the 2,000 transport planes that will double in the next 10 years? Both the air ports at Guaymas and Tucson are underutilized.

Following the European Airbus development with the super cargo plane, it supposedly will be able to transport 8 TEU’s, underscoring just how important air transport is for (Just in Time Delivery).

40% of all cargo from Asia bound for the US is unloaded in Los Angeles and Long Beach.

There are 8,392 container ships afloat today and these ships are getting bigger and bigger. Maersk shipping is by far the largest and has over 1,000 ships in their fleet.

Hence, there is enough business for all the various ports and the Port of Guaymas is ready for development.

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