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Eric Watkins
Americas Correspondent
Eric Watkins is the Americas Correspondent for Lloyd’s List, covering container traffic in the Western Hemisphere. Based in Los Angeles, California, Eric covers the major container ports along the Pacific Coast and is familiar with the region’s transport system, including maritime, railroad and trucking.
Eric brings a global perspective to his work, having worked as a foreign correspondent in the Arabian Peninsula, Central Asia, Africa and Europe. Now living on a bluff overlooking San Pedro Bay, Eric is well positioned to report on the global traffic that plies the seas to and from the Pacific gateways of North and South America.
Latest From Eric Watkins
Port of Savannah stays ahead of the curve to increase throughput
Among efforts to increase capacity at GPA are the Savannah Harbour Expansion Project, now 75% complete and the Mason Mega Rail Terminal which is close to 50% complete
US west coast ports boosted by retail sales demand
The import figures reflect US retail sales growth, which accelerated in September. Retail sales increased 1.9% last month, the most in three months, after climbing 0.6% in August, according to the US Commerce Department
Shipping’s scrubber gamble ‘looks like yesterday’s solution’
The industry’s $6bn investment in scrubbers was based on an assumed price spread between high-priced low-sulphur fuels and low-priced high-sulphur fuels, but refiners and traders upended that assumption by creating cheap blends
Crew change crisis: ‘Nothing is happening’, conference told
Necessary technological improvements as a result of lockdowns have been far overshadowed by the serious and continuing problems the pandemic has created for seafarers, according to speakers at an industry gathering
US channel blocked to deep-draft vessels after hurricane
The US Army Corps of Engineers is currently dealing with a barge that sank in Louisiana’s Calcasieu Ship Channel on Tuesday — one of three obstructions to be removed before deep-draft vessels can resume. The restrictions are adversely impacting the region’s petroleum industry
US east coast throughput rises on improved global trade
Yi Xiaozhun, deputy director of the World Trade Organization, warns that ‘a descent into protectionism’ in the aftermath of the pandemic would be among ‘the greatest risks for the global economy’