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Panama Canal Expansion

3PL Insights

In 1934, experts estimated that the canal could accommodate a maximum capacity of about 80 million tons each year. But in reality, there has been much more vessel traffic than anyone ever envisioned: in 2009 alone, the traffic in the canal reached a whopping 299.1 million tons of shipping materials. What does the new expansion entail?

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Cloud-based Solutions Rise to the Top in This New Era

Arena Solutions

Since 2009, cloud computing spending has been reported to grow 4.5 One of the most common analogies used to describe the differences between the two is the “real-estate” example. Scaling has fewer implications because new users can access the same software as the original users and capacity can grow as needed.