Moving Tonnage

With the expansion of the Panama Canal to be completed by 2014, the canal will be able to accommodate more and bigger ships to pass through, this being the case, it is anticipated that the route and flow of shipments from Asia could potentially move more tonnage through the canal and up the Mississippi River where it will be moved by truck or rail to the eastern states, instead of passing through the port at Long Beach, California. Federal Highway funds are currently being spent on the expansion of high speed rail in the north and east and not for the public interstate highway system. This is going to force the responsibility back on state government to fix their own highways.