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Article: Capturing the Canal: Port of New Orleans, Gulf Coast look for share of Panama Canal expansion traffic
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- New Orleans CityBusiness
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- September 28, 2009
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Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Stephen Moret's
prediction that expanding the Panama Canal will not, after all,
ignite a bonanza of new shipping containers at Gulf Coast ports is
unpopular among some in the industry.
"I don't know exactly where the Louisiana Secretary for Economic
Development is coming from," said John Vickerman, a port planning
and design specialist working with the Louisiana International Gulf
Transfer Terminal, one of the handful of proposals for a cargo
transfer hub at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
A report by consulting firm A.T. Kearney, the basis of Moret's
opinion, is expected to go public next month. Vickerman said he has
not seen the final report ...