![]() ![]() But the canal is not the port’s only competition.Įarly last month APM Terminals, the ports arm of Danish oil and shipping group A.P. Experts suggest that as much as a quarter of the approximately 60 million tons of cargo – nearly 8 million TEU’s in 2011 – Los Angeles and neighboring Long Beach handles each year could be diverted, shrinking both the size and importance of the terminals. A $5.25-billion project will make the Panama Canal wider and deeper, allowing ships from China to bypass West Coast ports for deepwater ports on the US Gulf Coast and East Coast. The Port of Los Angeles, the country’s busiest container port, faces an uncertain future. ![]()
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