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The Amero – North American Currency

Posted in NAFTA with tags on November 28, 2008 by zion2day

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The Amero – North American Currency

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NAFTA: NASCO (North America’s Super Corridor Coalition)

Posted in NAFTA with tags on November 1, 2008 by zion2day

North America’s Super Corridor Coalition

(From Wikipedia) The North American SuperCorridor Coalition is a non-profit organization that seeks to develop an international multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor, which it claims will improve trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.

Scope

NASCO’s scope encompasses Interstate highways I-35, I-29, and I-94 and the significant east/west connectors to those highways in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The public has referred to I-35 as the “NAFTA superhighway”.

Border crossings

The project includes the largest border crossing in North America – the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario – and the largest inland port, Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, the ports of Manzanillo, Colima and Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán. It runs as far north as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Affiliations

NASCO now includes the former North American International Trade Corridor Partnership, a nonprofit organization in Mexico. Membership includes public and private sector entities along the corridor in all three participating countries, including the Texas Department of Transportation, who is building the Trans-Texas Corridor.

Funding

NASCO has received $2.5 million in earmarks from the United States Department of Transportation for the development of a technology and tracking tools. NASCO states that the deployment of a modern information system will reduce cost, improve efficiency, reduce trade-related congestion, and enhance security of cross-border and intra-corridor trade and traffic.

http://blogdg.ctl.ca/2008/01/nasco_north_americas_super_corridor_coalition.html

http://www.inboundlogistics.com/digital/nasco_digital06.pdf

NAFTA: Kansas City SmartPort

Posted in NAFTA with tags on November 1, 2008 by zion2day

Kansas City SmartPort

(From Wikipedia) The Kansas City SmartPort is a proposal by the U.S. city of Kansas City, Missouri, for other countries to base their customs officials in that Midwest city to speed exports.

The current proposal calls for officials from Mexico to inspect and tag cargo and before it is shipped via truck or train expedited through the international border to the Pacific deep water ports at Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, and Manzanillo, Colima, where the exports would be sent to Asia. It is claimed the port would be 15% cheaper than shipping exports to the California ports at San Diego and Los Angeles.

Kansas City has proposed two ports:

  • The 14th & Liberty Street truck port near the city’s first union train station in the city’s West Bottoms (which is already in contract).
  • The Richards-Gebaur train port south of the city which would be served by the Kansas City Southern Railroad (which is considered a long term project).

Kansas City is also working on a proposal to ship goods through Canada to Europe.

The proposal requires State Department approval as there is a question about whether Mexico would have sovereign territory in Kansas City on the same level as an embassy.

There are also questions about the viability of the project. Initially Kansas City proposed 800 trucks/day. The number has been reduced to 800 trucks/week (in contrast to Laredo, Texas, which handles 9,000 trucks/day). The project has also aroused some local opposition regarding the prospects of trucks on city streets and the requirement for the American Royal to move a parking area.

The proposal has also raised concerns about introducing illegal immigrants into the heartland. The SmartPort says their intentions now are only aimed at exports.

Kansas City’s SmartPort web site that among the advantages the city would bring to the port include:

  • The most rail traffic in the United States in terms of tonnage passes through the city
  • The city has 10,000 acres (40 km²) designation as a free trade zone – the largest area of any city in the United States.

http://www.kcsmartport.com/pdf/SmtPrtOneRoute.pdf