Impact from Panama Canal expansion is focus of forum

It’s perhaps the biggest economic question – and potential threat – that Long Beach and its neighboring cities have faced in decades.

And it couldn’t come at a more trying time for dockworkers, mariners, truckers and business leaders struggling with a global recession and severely depressed trade volumes through San Pedro Bay. The Panama Canal is midway through the biggest expansion in its 100-year history, a $5.25 billion renovation designed to accommodate new generations of mega ships and tankers currently unable to squeeze through the aging waterway. Read Article