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Canal expansion could boost transshipment
The expanded Panama Canal and growing size of containerships will result in wider use of all-water services from Asia and increased use of transshipment services, said speakers at a Tampa conference Tuesday.
Matsuda asked to improve Kings Point
President Obama's nominee for U.S. maritime administrator was asked by a senior lawmaker from New Jersey to make it one of his priorities to improve operations at the country's primary merchant marine officers training school.
'The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy is in unacceptable condition,' said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who led the Senate Commerce Committee nomination hearing Tuesday for David T. Matsuda to head the Maritime Administration.
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