The main route using the waterway by cargo tonnage runs between the U.S. East Coast and Asia. It is followed by the U.S. East Coast and the West Coast of South America, Europe and the West Coast South America, the U.S. East Coast and the West Coast of Central America, and the South America intercoastal route.
Facilitating Grain Exports
Traditionally, the dry bulk market has been and continues to be important in terms of the cargo tonnage transported through the Panama Canal. The main commodities moved in bulk cargo vessels consist of soybeans, corn and miscellaneous grains. The grain flows originate in U.S. ports located on the Gulf of Mexico region destined for China, the West Coast of South America, Japan and the West Coast of Central America. Soybeans are the most prominent commodity crop that navigates the Mississippi river to be shipped through U.S. ports bound for China. Corn shipments from the same ports are often bound for Japan and Peru.
And that means that the political explosiveness into retaking the Channel justified by its geostrategic importance and constitutional role of the Navy is bigger then the overall gain by the presence of an alternative investment.
The Channel was build way before digital age and in a time in which logistics turned centralisation. Today that creates ever larger ships, but increases travel distances to those harbours being able to serve those ships even so Railway and Truck are much faster in transport speed.
That cannot be efficient when digital route and distribution planning software could be optimising trade and shipments saving time and energy.
Instead of building an ever bigger Channel and risking diplomatic peace, the challenge must be to enable the U.S. soy, corn and grain trade and logistics to be more efficient by smarter route planning.
Goods transport is exactly like a vacation trip. You pack your car with family and suitcases and drive off your yard. At the public road timing and route planning start to become important. Traffic jams are frequent at certain times and can be avoided by timing or detouring within the Quarter at the Kindergarten, the Town during commuting times and on the High Way during common Bank Holiday days.
The Panama Channel is a bottle neck of trade even so grain harvested in the U.S. has no need to ever pass through the Channel no matter if sold to the East Coast of the U.S. or South America or the West Coast of the U.S. or South America.
The Chicago Exchange Trade data can clarify which monopolies take responsibility, I bet.
State of the Art Calculator when The Panama Channel was created.
The Internet. State of the Art.
No stupid Wars, Dude. I am serious.
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