{"id":9657,"date":"2016-01-27T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/01\/27\/cuba-hub-mooted-at-aapa-conference\/"},"modified":"2016-01-27T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T11:17:00","slug":"cuba-hub-mooted-at-aapa-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/north-america\/cuba-hub-mooted-at-aapa-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba hub mooted at AAPA conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker The Honorable Carlos Gutierrez, the Secretary of Commerce during the George W. Bush presidency, suggested that the present pastiche of trade agreements throughout the Western Hemisphere might better be unified regionally. \u201cWe should be working to stitch them up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Gutierrez was enthusiastic about the prospects for Cuba trade, pointing out that Mariel, on Cuba\u2019s northwest coast, will have the ability to handle post-panamax vessels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to think about what Cuba\u2019s role will be in supply chains in the future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rodolfo Sabonge, who spent many years as a planner with the Panama Canal Authority, emphasised the importance of \u201cnear sourcing\u201d, suggesting that Cuba might possibly become a logistics hub to feed the US, eclipsing others with similar ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lifting of the US embargo on Cuba, unanticipated by many port planners, could alter the map of shipping services around the Caribbean, according to delegates at the American Association of Port Authorities\u2019 Shifting International Trade Routes conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9657"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}