Sentences with phrase «coast ports»

The next phase must go beyond hard infrastructure to deal with a range of governance, labour, and efficiency issues that continue to be a drag on the competitiveness of west coast ports.

First quarter GDP is expected to be a little soft, mainly the result of transient factors, such as the winter and the west coast port closures.

Still, early anecdotal evidence suggests the expansion is bringing more and bigger ships into the Gulf of Mexico and other east coast ports in the U.S., only four of which can currently handle vessels in the 10,000 + TEU range (although several ports are stepping up efforts to upgrade their facilities).

While the market benchmark remains West Texas Intermediate crude delivered in Cushing, Oklahoma, there has been a surge in trading of futures contracts tracking the price differences between WTI and oil sold in Gulf Coast ports like Houston and the Permian shale fields near Midland, Texas.

Economists blamed the slowdown on poor weather and the West Coast port strike, though a recent paper from the New York Federal Reserve found the latter event to have only a modest drag on growth.

If you want to move large amounts of goods to or from West Coast ports in the most cost efficient manner the railroads are it.

It seems likely an early version of the script supplanted Chicago with an East Coast port like New York, but since the climax involves the destruction of a tall tower, that might have seemed in poor taste.

The state can be «the cradle of an entirely new domestic supply chain that could revitalize East Coast port cities, supporting offshore wind development and potentially thousands of jobs,» said AWEA Advocacy and Federal Legislative Affairs Manager Nancy Sopko.

CREA president Gerry Thiessen has been a Realtor since 1977, first in the west coast port of Prince Rupert and then moving into B.C.'s interior community of Vanderhoof.

That business suffered badly last year and in early 2015 because of labor strife at West Coast ports from Seattle to San Diego.

Proposals for expansion of exports focus on sending coal from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana over rail lines to West Coast ports for shipment to Asian buyers.

Larger ships docking in U.S. ports is one of the five trends JLL cited in its report along with Gulf Coast ports seeing the most port volumes and increased industrial real estate demand; mergers and alliances that are changing the landscape of the shipping industry; next - day deliveries and autonomous vehicles that are affecting the trucking industry and the need for the rail industry to diversify and become more nimble.

Together, the two networks could connect East Coast ports with a huge swathe of North America.

The Discovery Coast Connector is our summer service between Port Hardy and Central Coast ports Bella Bella, Shearwater, Klemtu, Ocean Falls and Bella Coola.

That together with harsh weather and a now - settled labor dispute at the West Coast ports helped to hold the economy down to a 0.2 percent annual growth pace in the first quarter.

Data out so far for the first quarter show weak industrial production, residential construction, retail sales, and nonresidential investments (for various reasons that include weather, a stronger dollar, a sharp pull - back in the energy sector, and the now - resolved West Coast port dispute).

He predicts that many units may have been delayed at West Coast ports on their way to warehouses, and thus some transactions that actually occurred in May may not be factored into consumer sales until the June report.

The growth came despite a strong dollar, the West Coast port slowdown that began last July, and a downward trend in overall U.S. wine exports compared to the previous year according to the latest export report released by the Wine Institute (WI) in San Francisco.

There are 11 expanding or proposed Northwest coast ports and refineries which could accept up to 800,000 barrels a day of oil — about 11 100 - car trains arriving daily.

Start your shore excursion from the Amalfi Coast port.

Modernizing cruise tourism and investment policies in order to facilitate the development of a Belize City and south eastern coast ports and docking facilities, legislation, policies and procedures.

While on our most epic crossing trip, where Mermaid II sails from the notorious Raja Ampat though the Banda Sea and into Flores's east coast port Maumere, we had some truly awesome encounters.

Over the last two years, East Coast ports including New York / New Jersey and Jacksonville have seen the largest decline in vacancy rates.»

«West Coast ports such as Los Angeles, Long Beach and Seattle - Tacoma continue to have the highest occupancy rates of all the port markets.

«National capitals Ottawa and Washington, D.C., oil centres Calgary and Houston and West Coast ports Vancouver and Seattle have price trends reflective of their economic and geographic similarities,» he says.

Or, opt for a Mexico / Central America cruise that departs from Florida or Gulf Coast ports like Galveston or New Orleans.

Most market watchers have consoled themselves with the view that most of the softness was a function of temporary factors, including harsh winter weather and a West Coast port strike.

The local economy is heavily impacted by the fact that Oakland is a major West Coast port city.

CREA president Gerry Thiessen has been a Realtor since 1977, first in the west coast port of Prince Rupert and then moving into B.C.'s...

The disruptions have steadily worsened since October, capped by a partial shutdown of all 29 West Coast ports for a third straight day on Monday, and the effects have rippled far beyond the United States.

As the $ 5 billion expansion of the Panama Canal passed its one - year anniversary in late June, the industrial real estate market surrounding ports in the U.S. heated up with East Coast and Gulf Coast ports seeing the biggest boost, according to a new report from JLL.

GDP growth is perhaps being temporarily disrupted by the worst and typically concentrated effects of the drop in oil prices, a harsher - than - usual winter and spillover effects on North American supply chains of the strikes that crippled west coast ports in the US.

Votto says he's preparing for delays at east coast ports, as security is likely to tighten on both sides of the Atlantic.

Part of the recent soft U.S. growth is admittedly a function of two temporary factors: a brutally cold winter and the West Coast port strike.

In early March, as rebels fought for control of the country's east coast ports, where much of the country's oil is refined or shipped abroad, the price of the American crude contract (West Texas Intermediate, or WTI) broke US$ 100 for the first time since 2008.

A labor dispute at U.S. West Coast ports had delayed imports, forcing the company to ration portions.

Union Pacific serves many of the fastest - growing U.S. population centers, operates from all major West Coast and Gulf Coast ports to eastern gateways, connects with Canada's rail systems and is the only railroad serving all six major Mexico gateways.

«Trust in West Coast ports is at an all - time low, and the perception of supply chain risk is at an all - time high,» said Peter Tirschwell, chief maritime analyst at the JOC Group, a supplier of U.S. sea - borne trade data.

D'Avignon pointed out that Alberta and B.C. have the most integrated economies in Canada and if costs rise in B.C., it will affect the cost of trade goods going to Alberta and the cost to ship Alberta products such as grain from West Coast ports.

Container growth is spurring investment in Canada's East Coast ports.

We expect a rebound in April, given the uptick in consumer confidence lately, the 15 - year low in initial claims of unemployment insurance, the now open West Coast ports, and dissipating weather - led setbacks.

In particular, Vancouver must shake its reputation of being perennially vulnerable to strikes (a reputation shared by US west coast ports).

Economic growth in the first quarter retreated due to what we feel were transitory issues, including headwinds from a rising dollar, work stoppages at West Coast ports and harsh winter weather, leading to a 0.7 % drop in the US gross domestic product during first - quarter 2015.1 We still maintain, however, that the two main pillars of the US economy — consumer spending and corporate earnings — will continue to be supported by moderate economic growth.

The change could overwhelm existing capacity at East Coast ports, he said, and thus increase demand for such an «inland» port, connected by train between his site in Manlius and the Port of New York and New Jersey.

For example it controls the main container port at Mariel, which has signed partnership deals with US Gulf Coast ports and the Port of Virginia.

The post has been resurrected along with another ceremonial role in the east coast port, the sheriff of Hull, which will be filled by the former Tory minister Virginia Bottomley.

With Asia's energy demands pulling more U.S. coal to West Coast ports, rail - line communities across Montana fear the effects: More train traffic, health problems, noise and congestion

As executive director of the Air Alliance Houston for five years, Tejada fought against pollution in poor neighborhoods surrounding Gulf Coast ports.

The US domestic portion of the transport from Braidwood to an east coast port was performed in compliance with the latest NRC security requirements.