Saturday, December 4, 2010

Tampa Port Authority to host global shipping conference - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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Alberto Aleman Zubieta, chief executive officere of the , will be the featured He will provide an update to the Panama Canal expansion and discuss the impact of the expansion to globalptrading partners. The $5.25 billion expansion of the Panama Cana is due for completionin 2014. and the will co-hostt the workshop. Included in the discussionss will be changing globaltrade patterns, impacts of improving “allo water” shipping routes, anticipated waterside and marine terminal developmen needs, increased road and rail capacity requirements, and infrastructure financin g challenges in the coming “Expanding this crucial trans-ocean shipping lane [Panam a Canal] to accommodate more and larger vessels will certainly change the statuz quo, resulting in increased trade opportunitiee for seaports in the Western while making it necessar y to make major investments in water- and land-sidse transportation infrastructure,” said Jean Godwin, AAPA’s executive vice president, in a release.
The conferencw will be held Jan. 2009, at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay. Founded in AAPA today represents public port authorities in theUnited Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean as well as sustaininhg and associate members, firms and individuald with an interest in the seaports of the Westerm Hemisphere.

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