Mark Penfield built his first garage in Greenfield with his brother when he was 12 years old. Douglas Hamshaw has been in the lumber business since 1967. And Evan Jones is the ninth-generation owner of Cowls Building Supply in Amherst. And these three.
Area not exempt from soaring lumber prices
Mark Penfield of R.G. Penfield & Sons Inc. in his Greenfield workshop with some lumber. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Hamshaw Lumber employees David Flood and Adam Clement in the covered lumber building in Orange. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Hamshaw Lumber employees Adam Clement and Sam Costin help a customer load lumber in Orange. The price of wood has skyrocketed lately. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Lumber for sale at Hamshaw Lumber in Orange. The price of wood has skyrocketed lately. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Stacked lumber at Hamshaw Lumber in Orange. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Big ships and long supply chains
Looking for alternatives to Suez It is certainly a very sensible move for Japanese companies to at least look into alternative routes, although they must remember that each of those will also have drawbacks, Yoshitsugu Hayashi, a professor of transportation policy and systems at Chubu University, told DW.
According to Hayashi, there are three alternative routes that are available to link East Asia with Europe, while a fourth is under development.
The first is a return to the journey around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, which was the route used before the 193-kilometer-long (120-mile) Suez Canal was completed in November 1869.
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The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said this week it plans on widening and deepening the Suez Canal.
Officials are making the changes in the hopes of avoiding a repeat of the Ever Given blunder.
The plan is to increase the width of the waterway by 131 feet and to deepen the area by 10 feet.
Egyptian authorities said this week they plan on widening and deepening parts of the Suez Canal to avoid a repeat of the Ever Given blunder in March, according to Bloomberg.
In a televised address on Tuesday, the head of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), Osama Rabie, said an 18.6 mile stretch of the waterway would be widened by about 131 feet (40 meters) and deepened by 32 feet (10 meters) to improve the movement of ships in the area.
In this March 30 file photo, the Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship, is seen in Egypt s Great Bitter Lake. (AP file photo)
The Japanese owner of a massive container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week, halting billions of dollars in maritime commerce, is asking owners of the freight it is carrying to share the cost of the damages demanded by Egyptian authorities.
Shoei Kisen Kaisha Ltd. said Friday that it has asked freight owners to share the damages in a deal known as a general average declaration. The damage sharing scheme is often used in maritime accidents covered by insurance. The company said it has notified a number of the owners of the approximately 18,000 containers on the ship to assume part of the damages demand, estimated at about $916 million.