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ARKANSAS MAY SEE JOBS FROM PROJECT "PANAMA CANAL EXPANSION"

By Patty Wooten/OF THE COMMERCIAL STAFF
Friday, November 3, 2006 11:11 PM CST

A $5.2 billion expansion of the Panama Canal offers a tremendous economic opportunity to Southeast Arkansas if the region can obtain funding to extend rail service to the Port of Yellow Bend, five miles south of McGehee, according to economic developers.



“The Panama Canal has served us well in terms of international trade but what has happened in recent years is the container vessels have got so large they cannot travel through the Panama Canal, so they’re moving to ports on the West Coast rather than come all the way around South America to get to ports on the Gulf and East coasts,” said Derrill Pierce, director of the Monticello Economic Development Commission.

But that will no longer be the case when the 92-year-old Pacific-Atlantic linking Panama Canal is expanded.

So what does that have to do with Southeast Arkansas?

Once the Panama Canal is expanded, and assuming rail service is extended to the Port of Yellow Bend and the Southeast Arkansas Intermodal Facility at Wilmar becomes fully operational, products on those large container vessels can be transported through the Panama Canal to either the Port of New Orleans or Houston, up the Mississippi River through Yellow Bend and loaded onto rail containers and carried to the intermodal facility and transferred to trucks, according to Mary Seymore, director of the Bradley County Industrial Development Corp.

“There has been a lot of flak that so many jobs are going overseas but the other side of the story is international trade has skyrocketed, particularly in the Far East,” Pierce said. “This could mean thousands of new jobs in Southeast Arkansas.”

But those jobs don’t come without a price tag.

The cost to extend rail service to the Port of Yellow Bend would cost an estimated $10 million to $14 million, depending upon which of three identified rail routes is selected, according to Fred Denton, chairman of the Chicot-Desha County Metropolitan Port Authority.

Pierce said the Southeast Arkansas Cornerstone Coalition is expected to ask area lawmakers to urge the Arkansas Department of Economic Development to help fund the rail extension.

“ADED gave McCrory $1 million to help build a rail spur to create 300 jobs,” Pierce said. “So we’re going to urge them to allocate $1 million of the 2007 Community Development Block Grant appropriations for the Yellow Bend Port to assist in the extension of the rail service, which is crucial to the development of the intermodal facility and our ability to participate in rapidly expanding international trade.”

State Rep. Gregg Reep, D-Warren, said the rail extension to Yellow Bend has “been on the table a long time” and he feels confident Southeast Arkansas legislators will do whatever they can to try to get it funded.

“To fully utilize the Yellow Bend port and benefit Southeast Arkansas economically, access by rail is vital,” Reep said. “I feel the whole group (the Southeast Arkansas caucus) would do whatever we could. We would pursue any and all avenues of financing.”

An environmental and cost estimate study of the three potential rail routes to the port is already under way, according to Denton.

The study is being funded through a $300,000 federal transportation appropriation

Panamá se prepara para ocupar cargo

ONU. El primer vicepresidente y canciller, Samuel Lewis, dijo ayer que Panamá ha empezado la preparación del equipo necesario para hacerle frente a la responsabilidad que conlleva ser parte del Consejo de Seguridad de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU). Lewis Navarro reiteró que Panamá no buscó el cargo, pero que la elección demuestra la confianza que hay en la política exterior panameña. Los presidentes de Perú, Alan García, y de Chile, Michelle Bachelet, manifestaron su satisfacción por la designación. "Necesitábamos en Naciones Unidas una voz única, una voz con el respaldo de todos", dijo Bachelet.

Leonardo Flores
PRENSA.COM

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Panama emerges as security council compromise

Mark Tran and agencies
Thursday November 2, 2006

Guardian Unlimited

Panama is set to join the UN security council after Guatemala and Venezuela agreed to drop their bids for a seat at the world's top diplomatic table.
The tiny Central American country emerged as the compromise candidate when Guatemala and Venezuela failed to muster the two-thirds majority needed in the 192-member general assembly to win the seat designated for a Latin American or Caribbean candidate.

The voting, which began last month, went through 47 ballots, the third-longest vote for a security council seat. Guatemala, backed by the US, led Venezuela in all but one ballot, which was tied, but lacked the dozen or so votes needed to push it over the top.

Venezuela's failure to win a security council seat is a blow to its president, the vociferously anti-American Hugo Chávez, who travelled around the world promising millions of dollars to drum up support for his country's bid.

But he damaged Venezuela's chances with overblown rhetoric that sounded out of place in the halls of the UN. In a speech to the general assembly in September, Mr Chávez described Washington as his No 1 enemy and called President George Bush "the devil".

Real power lies with the five permanent members, who have veto power - the US, China, Russia, France and Britain. It is these five, for example, who are discussing among themselves a resolution in the standoff with Iran over its nuclear enrichment programme. The other 10 non-permanent members who serve two years are merely bit-players.

Nevertheless, a victory for Venezuela would have given Mr Chávez a high-profile platform from which to berate the US. Venezuela put its best face on a disappointing outcome.

The Venezuelan foreign minister Nicolas Maduro, said: "We are recognising today this role of Panama as a political and geographical meeting point and we are very happy to reach this consensus. Many people will give their opinion about this, but I think what matters today is that a sister nation has obtained our agreement, that's what matters."

Panama expressed its gratitude for being chosen and said it would do its best to support policies on the council that promoted "peace and justice in the world" if elected.

The 35-member Latin American and Caribbean group must still approve the choice for the seat and then the general assembly will vote. But the decision by Guatemala and Venezuela is expected to stand.

Guatemala and Venezuela were vying for the Latin American seat that Argentina will vacate at the end of the year. Peru stays on the council until the end of 2007, along with the Congo Republic, Ghana, Qatar and Slovakia. Last month, South Africa, Indonesia, Italy and Belgium won two-year terms.

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