Comment / US port capacity – time to get a strategy

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The history of modern port development, as supply chains have transitioned into the container era, largely follows a predictable trend: port facilities that were traditionally at the heart of urban areas – such as London’s general cargo wharves along the Thames, right at the heart of the city – were gradually abandoned, the areas rebuilt with post-industrial housing and commercial services.

Meanwhile, port facilities, mostly shiny new container terminals, were increasingly located away from population centres because, frankly, people and cargo ...