NL-Outsidethebox [confederation]

With the melting of the North West passsage and the eventual opening up of that route to shipping NL could become a prime transfer shipment destination for goods coming to north america 's East and West coast on the same ship. Especially with the advent of newer larger PanaMax Ships which can't navigate the Saint Lawrence SeaWay. So containers will need to be offloaded at a deep water coastal port.

Now the Atlantica proposal is to use the Halifax Port as a Transhipment port to access the Eastern seaboard by Rail and Road as well as short haul smaller container ships. This is already underway because Halifax is about to get two new PanaMax offloading Cranes to enable Halifax to service these larger ships.

The Problem with Halifax is the Road routes and Rail routes to the Eastern Seaboard aren't up to grade for this kind of volumn so the majority of containers are still going to be moved by sea only smaller container ships. So why not utilize NL as a transhipment location for ship borne cargo. This way the Eastern Seaboard can be accessed, Saint Lawrence Seaway, and the North West Passage.

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