Message from skroop

[Anonymous]

Lecture by Stephen Cheung: LA World Trade Center
I was shocked at the size of LA county GDP, population, and containers coming in and out of both the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Even more surprising was the top 10 container ports in the world, #1-8 being ports in China, #9 in Dubai, and #10 in LA. It is also interesting to hear about the extreme trade imbalance and all the empty boxes that we are sending back to China. I think this was a bit of common knowledge, however, this imbalance was far greater than I imagined.

I am curious what the effects of a Panama Canal expansion could be on jobs and the amount of containers coming into LA and Long Beach. Is this expansion still a consideration or has it completely been abandoned?