The following is excerpted from the 26 April 2013 article by the Journal of Commerce.
The United States may be the trade capital of the world, but if you’re looking for North America’s fastest-growing container ports, you’ll have to look north and south of its borders.
Among the Top 25 North American ports, only two U.S. ports … grew at a double-digit clip ..Yet both lagged well behind the growth at North America’s two newest ports: Prince Rupert, British Columbia, with 32.7 percent growth, and Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, 29.3 percent.
On the import leg, Prince Rupert’s 5-year-old container port spiked 36.4 percent year-over-year — by far the most rapid year-over-year increase ...
The list of JOC top 25 North American Container Ports for 2012 is available at: http://www.joc.com/port-news/joc-top-25-north-american-container-ports-imports.
This article is available in its entirety at: http://www.joc.com/port-news/us-ports/newer-ports-canada-mexico-lead-north-american-growth_20130426.html (subscription may be required.)