Ports, Supply Chains, and the Future of Software

by Paul Harmon

I read two interesting news items recently. One announced that this year, for the first time, the US Port of New York unloaded more cargo off ships from Asia than from Europe. It seems that China and Korea have launched a new generation of super warehouse ships that are moving the growing tide of goods from Asia to the US. Apparently the Port of New York had been in decline for several years, while West Coast ports had been growing rapidly. The new generation of ships, however, makes it just as efficient to ship from China to New York as to ship from China to Los Angeles and then tranship by rail from Los Angeles to New York.

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Ports, Supply Chains, and the Future of Software 24 November 2004