The Panama Canal is getting a payout from its $5.4 billion widening project.  A wider canal enabled ships, which, for example, can have a beam (width) of 49 meters – up from 32 meters and nearly three times the capacity – to transit the waterway.  The number of ships transiting the canal is up 23%!  Historically, bigger container vessels headed from Asia to ports like Charleston had to:

Both routes – rail and Suez – are seeing a decline in volume.  

 

On the oil front, Putin and the Saudi leaders met to discuss keeping oil production down – Russia is not a member of OPEC – with the goal of pushing world prices up.  

 

Did you know that 80 of C.R. England Inc’s 8000 employees were unionized?  I didn’t. Don’t worry; they have voted to decertify their union – International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 705.