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The Panama Canal is set to accommodate larger ships in a couple years - what is Boston doing to prepare for this coming boom in shipping up the east coast?
The Panama Canal is set to accommodate larger ships in a couple years - what is Boston doing to prepare for this coming boom in shipping up the east coast?
They're also going to leave a side median on the haul road for future rail access to Conley whenever demand merits so they don't ever have to do the old method of street-running freight track down E. 1st
F-Line, you're not referring to the"buffer zone" (basically a ribbon park down East First) that MPA has been boasting about are you? I hope that buffer zone isn't actually for future rail.
I would guess nothing. Boston makes little to no sense as a destination or origin for ships traversing the canal. The only logical routes involving Boston are shipping between the U.S. and Europe. But almost everything lands via five or six mega-ports for processing, then shipped by road or rail to the final destination. Boston is not one of these ports.
The Panama Canal is set to accommodate larger ships in a couple years - what is Boston doing to prepare for this coming boom in shipping up the east coast?
964-foot, 68,000-ton ship has been plying the seas since 2007, but had never yet sailed in to her namesake port. ..... "It just signifies how important Cosco and New England and Boston are to each other,'' said Massport Port Director Mike Leone. "What's really important is this is the largest ship that can go through the Panama Canal. It's the largest ship we've seen from Asia,'' creating thousands of more shipping slots for New England importers and exporters. Only four other U.S. cities merit a ship named for them by Cosco: New York, Norfolk, Long Beach, Calif., and Seattle. There's enough room on Cosco Boston for 5,089 20-foot-long shipping containers,
Vessel's Details
Ship Type: Container ship
Year Built: 2010
Length x Breadth: 294 m X 32 m
Gross Tonnage: 54182, DeadWeight: 63069 t
Speed recorded (Max / Average): 8.7 / 7.9 knots
Flag: Liberia [LR]
Call Sign: A8VA3
IMO: 9426817, MMSI: 636091969
Last Position Received
Area: Atlantic North
Latitude / Longitude: 42.34204˚ / -71.01982˚ (Map)
Currently in Port:
Last Known Port: BOSTON
Info Received: 0d 0h 1min ago
Current Vessel's Track
Itineraries History
Voyage Related Info (Last Received)
Draught: 10.8 m
Destination: BOSTON
ETA: 2012-04-26 04:00
Info Received: 2012-04-26 16:53 (0d, 1h 53min ago)
F-Line, do you know if the power plant owner has agreed to sell or demo the old Boston Edison Plant? That's been in the queue for like 15 years...