Water Transportation Ports and International Trade (2003)

Summary: These studies present diverse developments in water transportation and international trade in sites such as Los Angeles, California; major Florida seaports; Rotterdam, Netherlands; the largest countries in South America; and the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Issues examined include evaluation of the design and operational costs of intermodal rail systems; ways to improve cost-and-quality features of barge transport, analysis of transportation system access to port areas; the feasibility of linking routes and services between Great Lakes, Minnesota, and Ontario, Canada; and the economic impacts of port capacity investments.