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原文传递 Pacific Northwest Logistics Patterns: The Port of Prince Rupert as a Successful National Gateway Strategy.

题名：	Pacific Northwest Logistics Patterns: The Port of Prince Rupert as a Successful National Gateway Strategy.
作者：	A. Goodchild; K. Pitera; S. Albracht;
关键词：	ports,marine terminals,economic development,port of prince rupert;freight transportation, cargo transportation, container ports, logistics;
摘要：	The Port of Prince Rupert is developing a significant marine container terminal (2 million TEUs by 2012). This port will be the closest major port to Southeast Alaska, and co-located with the terminus, and only Canadian port of the Alaska Marine Highway System. Located in Northern British Columbia, the Port of Prince Rupert is the second largest deep-sea port on the West Coast of Canada. This port also offers up to 58 hours shorter transit time between North American and key ports in Asia compared to other West Coast ports. The Port of Prince Rupert also presents a completely new and untested model for port development. All other major North American ports are located in major urban centers with extensive inland transportation infrastructure. This is not the case for Prince Rupert, which opened for container business in September, 2007. The ports rural location may be viewed as both an asset and vulnerability. An asset as there is less congestion, and a smaller population for any negative exposure, while vulnerabilities arise due to possible disruptions in transporting goods to and from the hinterland on the single-track rail line which is prone to landslides and flooding and the lack of any landside handling infrastructure such as warehouses or transloading facilities. This project will gather goods movement data on trade between Alaska, Washington and British Columbia from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and PIERS database to develop regional flow map. Qualitative interviews with shipping lines and major transportation providers at regional ports will also be completed (over the phone). The final report will document results and analysis from these tasks and provide a framework for future research concerning the role of rural ports, in particular those in northern locations. / Title Note: Final research rept. / Supplementary Notes: Sponsored by Department of Transportation, Washington, DC. Office of the Secretary. / Availability Note: Order this product from NTIS by: phone at 1-800-553-NTIS (U.S. customers); (703)605-6000 (other countries); fax at (703)605-6900; and email at orders@ntis.gov. NTIS is located at 5301 Shawnee Road, Alexandria, VA, 22312, USA. / NTIS Prices: PC A03 / NTIS In-house Control Codes: dotos;12091,1101
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