Introduction The Great Lakes Global Freight Gateway (GLGFG) Project is an initiative that seeks to transform the Southeastern Michigan and Southwestern Ontario region into a multimodal transshipment hub. This hub will be where goods are moved through the Port of Halifax, loaded on the new Maersk Triple-E container ships, and shipped to worldwide markets. The Port of Halifax is currently the only deep-water port that can accommodate these post-panamax container ships. These Triple-E ships can move up to 18,000 containers and, due to the economies of scale, reduce the shipping cost per container; thereby reducing cost to manufactures (GLFGr4, pg. 4). Detroit is currently the best-situated city for repositioning its main economic engine to transcontinental shipping. The location on an international border and the system of rail lines and roadways in the region, are the assets that make this opportunity possible. That is the broad view of the project, but many people want to know a more narrow scope of the project. They want to know the local impact of the project. This essay will address the local angle by illustrating how the decline of the automobile industry has placed this region in a position for revival as a transshipment hub. Also, this essay will illustrate how economic activity from The Great Lakes Global Freight Gateway Project can regenerate local real estate markets. Development Shipping goods through Detroit to the Port of Halifax provides the opportunity to use vacated industrial centers by repurposing these facilities for transshipment and manufacturing. Detroit as a transshipment hub provides a distribution system for goods to move to worldwide markets. Many manufacturers have failed due to a lack of an adequat... ... middle of paper ... ...rom http://www.youtube.com/user/urbanecondetroit Sase, J. F. (Producer). (2011). OGM: Legends of Detroit—Old General Motors. [Web Video]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/user/urbanecondetroit Sase, J. F. (Producer). (2011). TC: Rent+Transportation=Total Cost. [Web Video]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/user/urbanecondetroit Detroit Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Response, Data Driven Detroit (D3), Community Legal Resources, University of Michigan — Edward Ginsberg Center and Living Cities, eds. Detroit Residential Parcel Survey. Detroit, MI: 2009. (p. 19). Print. Sase, J. F., and Gerard Senick. Another Mortgage Tsunami? “Let Them Eat Cake” (Part Two). 2010. Print. Sase, J. F., and Gerard Senick. "Legal News Expert Witness column." The Great Lakes Freight Gateway: $11 Billion in New Economic Activity and 150,000 New Jobs. November 2011. Print.
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Delinquencies to the homeowners’ association are one of the major topics, this is always the main agenda, and how United Properties Associates will collect the needed funds that people are delinquent in paying. The following data was derived from multiple resources such as demographics of the area, soliciting comments from board members and reviewing annual budgets. The cost of living index is 85.1 which are below the U.S. national average of 100, so it is relatively less expensive in the area than other regions of Virginia. Estimated median household income is $64,405 dollars and is above the Virginia average by ...
Michigan is the only state in the union composed to two separated peninsulas. At the closest point, the upper and lower peninsulas are a mere five miles apart. In the early twentieth century, the only way to make the trip across the five miles of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron was to take a boat ride from one side to the other. As businesses expanded and industry grew, the demand to cross the lakes for travel and commerce purposes grew. The only way to cross the lake was by means of a ferry service, which was unable to keep up with consumer demand. Michigan residents were unable to get convenient and frequent transport between the peninsulas. They needed a consistent, fast, and safe way to travel freely from the mainland to the upper-peninsula. In response, the construction of a five-mile-long suspension bridge to link the peninsulas was set into action. The construction of the Mackinac Bridge was greatly significant to the national economy, the field of engineering, the efficiency of travel, and the historic symbolism of the state of Michigan.
A majority of mortgage defaults that Americans used were on subprime mortgage loans, which were high-interest-rate loans lent to people with high risk credit rates (Brue). Despite knowing the risks, the Federal government encouraged major banks to lend out these loans to buyers, in hopes, of broadening ho...
In 2013, Americans witnessed a slowly sinking ship finally submerge. Once a bustling urban center rife with economic prosperity, the city of Detroit, Michigan filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S history on July 18, 2013 (Fletcher, 2013). Over recent decades, Detroit has been the victim of both economic and demographic decay. To put the magnitude of the city’s desolation in perspective, during the middle of the twentieth century, the city’s population was approximately 1,850,000, making it, at the time, the fifth most populous city in the nation. As of 2013 census data, however, the city has dropped to the eighteenth most populous city, with a population of 701,000, the lowest it has been since the 1910s when the city was still developing. What this means is, in a little over half a century, Detroit has seen a population loss of nearly 60%. In fact, it’s the only city to have climbed above one million people and then fallen below that mark (Johnson, 2013). To make matters worse, Detroit’s unemployment rate, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, has risen to 23.1%, the highest of any large city in the nation (U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2013). Not surprisingly, Detroit is also the nation’s most poverty stricken city, with 36.4% of individuals and 31.3% of families living under the poverty level (U.S. Census Bureau, 2013). Detroit even claims some of the highest crime rates in the country, and thousands of its houses and industrial buildings are abandoned (Koremans, 2013).
Transportation was huge after the Erie Canal was made/ built, it made traveling much more safe and faster. [Peter L.B] has made much appearances and opinions about the Erie Canal and has had good statements about it. "...Villages miles apart seemed far..." What he was getting to is that the Erie Canal can make distances in a short time. In [chart 1] of the DBQ it shows how cheaper and easier it is to take the canal with a boat instead of a wagon. It states that the canal is 94$ cheaper than dirt road/ trail. The lining in [chart 2] is presenting good transport for resources. It makes the shown appearance that during the 60's goods were ranged over 450,000$ and had great product of appearance with no bandits. In addition to transport, its now time for population change because of the Erie Canal.
The North American transport system is run by several different agencies, each one having its own important part in making it all run smoothly and efficiently . There are also several policies that have been put in place to keep the transportation system working for the good of everyone. The agencies involved keep very good records of all the types of transportation that make up the system, which makes it easy for anyone to be able to see all the different statistics associated with the system. The Freight broker business is another important part of the transportation system, the following paragraphs will tell how all these things work together.
The development of canal, steam boats and railroads provided a transportation network that linked different regions of the nation together. When farmers began migrating westward and acquiring land for crops, cheaper forms of transportation provided the means to transfer their goods to other regions for s...
By the 1970’s, because of several factors, Pittsburgh lost the steel industry as its primary economic source. As a result, there was a dramatic shift in Pittsburgh’s economy from one based ...
...number of people depending on the movement of goods and transportation is always going to be a large portion of the population. “ This is perhaps the most important force in shifting from the old paradigm. Because customers want products when, where, and how they choose, distribution is increasingly a vital component of the supply chain” (Kirchhoff M, Peacock J. 2005). Expanding the clearing yards to a larger number of rails should begin to decrease the amount of congestion the city is witnessing with their freight traffic. Even the problems are being stressed amongst the citizens of the state. The arrival times are unpredictable and are breaking down all the time. Being old like the rest of the rail infrastructure it needs to be repaired as well. “About $8.7 billion is needed to bring it up to "good repair" but no funding plan is in place” (Van Hampton, T. 2007).
No technology has had a greater impact on the American life than the automobile. Where we live, how we work, and how we travel, what our landscape looks like, our environment have all been shaped by the automobile. There isn’t a better place that demonstrates the social, geographic, and political changes brought by the industry than Detroit, the motor city. Detroit was situated to be a center of the American automobile industry. All of the material that was needed to build was easily accessible to the city by the great lakes waterways and by rail. The automobile industry helped people with their everyday lives and changed the way people saw the world.
The port is located in British Columbia in Canada on the southwest coast. The port covers from Point Roberts at the Canada/U.S. border though Burrard Inlet to Port Moody and Indian arm, and from the mouth of the Fraser River, eastward to the Fraser Valley, and north along the Pitt River to Pitt Lake, and includes the north and middle arms of the Fraser River. Port Metro Vancouver is the fourth largest tonnage port in North America and one of the fastest growing ports that has 28 major marine cargo terminals and three Class 1 railroads that offers a full range of facilities and services to the international shipping community. Its major business sector operates across automobiles, breakbulk, bulk container and cruise. It trades with over 160 world economies each year that estimated at $172 billion in goods. In 2013 it handled 135 million tonnes of cargo; 95 percent of total volume from the Port serves Canadian imports and export markets.
As sea ice begins to melt, opportunity in sea transportation strikes as an interesting topic for the Canadian economy. Wintertime shipping has proven to be difficult in the Canadian arctic, due to heavier and thicker ice (Fergal & Prowse, 2007). Summertime has always been a preferable season for sea transportation partially due to the softened ice, and the amount of daylight produced, compared to wintertime darkness (Ferg...
There is little doubt that an effective transportation system is the backbone of a sound economic society (Bloomberg, Hanna and Murray, 1998). Comtois (2007) also recognizes that transportation plays a considerable role in the economy with its omnipresence throughout the production chain, at all geographic scales. Singapore Review (2007) stated that Singapore is heavily dependent on exports; therefore freight transportation holds an important role in stimulating the economy of Singapore and making it what it is today. Singapore is located at a favorable geographical position, making it the number one hub for the transshipment of freight to and from all over the world. Singapore also boosts world-class seaport and airport facilities and an extensive network of expressways, allowing efficient and effective transfer of cargo between multiple modes of transport. This paper will discuss the economic role of freight transportation in Singapore’s economy and how Singapore’s advancement into the global economy affects the demand for freight transportation locally.
Some find that spending on the proper infrastructure and technology to improve our intermodal port systems would serve as less beneficial for a variety of reasons. However, the need for improvement in these areas is vital to actually providing to the GDP in this country. Take into the account the ability to communicate from virtually anywhere in the world in this day and age, everywhere you look someone has some sort of device in which they can communicate with one another at the touch of a button. Quickly dispersing the newest and most up to date information at the touch of a button has proven to be profitable to the economy as well as day to day business transactions. The thought of having intermodal ports serve their purpose just the same as cellular devices. By dispersing goods instead of information is much needed. Non-hub ports that have been turned into distribution points have been proven to scale with the right infrastructure and avenues for transportation companies