Baja port proposed to rival Los Angeles, Long Beach

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | March 26, 2008 | Jerome R. Corsi

[Man50D]

Plans have been finalized by Mexico to develop Punta Colonet as a West Coast Mexican alternative to the U.S. ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach.

The proposal includes a deep-water Pacific Ocean port on Mexico's Baja California peninsula about 150 miles south of Tijuana that could serve as a destination for the 30 million containers headed to North America from China and the Far East each year, according to a report published Tuesday in the Los Angeles Times.

The on-again, off-again plan to develop Punta Colonet has been discussed before as the number of containers from China grows and multi-national corporations out-sourcing their North American manufacturing to China are looking for cuts in transportation costs.

The lure of Punta Colonet is the cheaper Mexican transportation labor available if Chinese containers arrive there to be moved into the interior of the United States, rather than the more expensive U.S. labor in Los Angeles and Long Beach.

The model to develop Punta Colonet is based on Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas, two Mexican ports on the Pacific south of Texas, which have been developed by Hutchison Ports Holdings, a Chinese port operations firm with close ties to the communist Chinese government and military.

[G L Tirebiter]

U.S. west coast port are often a bottleneck of late. They suffer under the burden of well organized, powerful unions.

More capacity on the west coast is a good thing and comes as no surprise.

[Flavius]

they are going to need a lot of truckers and trains to move that junk north

i wonder if there are plans for that as well

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[Joe Boucher]

Would be interesting to see which is the bigger crime syndicate, the longshoremen of Long Beach or the Narco banditos of Baja?

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Exactly. What a great opportunity for the Mexican drug cartels to remove the lead-laden Chinese-made toys from the containers and replace them with narcotics.

[snowrip]

My grandfather built a large, profitable construction company from nothing, starting in 1936. He never allowed unionization.

Whenever we had a family dinner and the talk turned to politics, he would always say “The unions will be the death of this country!”. I can still hear him say it, though that time was over thirty years ago.

[Ben Ficklin]

What is wrong with Corsi?

Usually, when he writes these articles about other articles, he never provides links.

But in this case he did provide the links, and those articles are much more informative and accurate than Corsi's article.

While the SD Union Trib article did mention that Punta Colonet will be built like a US city, it didn't mention that it is likely that many US citizens will move there to work at the port.

[deport]

U.S. west coast port are often a bottleneck of late. They suffer under the burden of well organized, powerful unions.

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That’s one of the major reasons Walmart moved a large part of their importing from the far east into the Houston Bay Terminal facilities. After the problems during the 03 Christmas import season Walmart begin the process of relocating some of their import points. They now use the Panama Canal with smaller ships, longer sea time but gain faster in store [point of delivery] time.

[angkor]

Note that this has been known for YEARS:

>>>>The lure of Punta Colonet is the cheaper Mexican transportation labor available if Chinese containers arrive there to be moved into the interior of the United States, rather than the more expensive U.S. labor in Los Angeles and Long Beach.
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[BfloGuy]

California longshoremen pricing themselves out of another juicy gig?