Canal chief won’t pick sides in port fight

By Chuck Crumbo
ccrumbo@scbiznews.com
Published Feb. 8, 2012

ATLANTA – Alberto Aleman Zubieta declined to pick sides in the race between Charleston and Savannah to deepen their harbors for the huge cargo ships that soon will be moving through the Panama Canal.

“Charleston’s and Savannah’s ports should be improved,” Aleman, CEO of the Panama Canal Authority, said Tuesday at the Modex 2012 supply chain and manufacturers exhibit. “Both are going to be needed.”

The Panama Canal is undergoing a major expansion that will allow container ships carrying 14,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) — nearly three times the capacity of container vessels that currently use the canal — pass between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

CEO of the Panama Canal Authority Alberto Aleman Zubieta The project is scheduled to be completed by 2014, in time for the canal’s centennial celebration.

When bigger container ships and other cargo vessels reach the ports

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