{"id":743,"date":"2017-04-11T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/04\/11\/comptroller-5-benefits-to-texas-expanded-panama-canal\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T20:56:00","slug":"comptroller-5-benefits-to-texas-expanded-panama-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/comptroller-5-benefits-to-texas-expanded-panama-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"Comptroller: 5 Benefits to Texas. Expanded Panama Canal."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&#8220;any substantial increase in that trade could <strong>add billions to the state economy<\/strong>&#8221;\n<ul>\n<li>In 2015,\u00a0$204 billion in international trade passed through Texas seaports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Greater efficiencies<\/strong> of Neo-Panamax ships could lower shipping cost by 30%<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lower costs\u00a0<\/strong>can add 10% increase in\u00a0Asian container traffic\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital Improvements.\u00a0<\/strong>$48 billion on capital improvements during the next five years in Texas Ports to accomodate Neo-Panamax ships<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Development.\u00a0<\/strong>$335 million marine terminal along the Houston Ship Channel in Pasadena<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/comptroller.texas.gov\/economy\/fiscal-notes\/2017\/april\/panama-canal.php#article\">Fiscal Notes |\u00a0Will an Expanded Panama Canal Increase Texas Trade?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&#8220;any substantial increase in that trade could <strong>add billions to the state economy<\/strong>&#8221;\n<ul>\n<li>In 2015,\u00a0$204 billion in international trade passed through Texas seaports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Greater efficiencies<\/strong> of Neo-Panamax ships could lower shipping cost by 30%<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lower costs\u00a0<\/strong>can add 10% increase in\u00a0Asian container traffic\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital Improvements.\u00a0<\/strong>$48 billion on capital improvements during the next five years in Texas Ports to accomodate Neo-Panamax ships<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Development.\u00a0<\/strong>$335 million marine terminal along the Houston Ship\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,30,23,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-local-government","category-ports","category-special-districts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}