Dalhousie University's Centre for International Trade and Transportation has received funding from the province and ACOA for a two year project to study the Atlantic Gateway. Several conferences, working papers and studies are in the plans already for the next year to look at the region's potential to link Asian with North American markets.
This Commentary is based on remarks by AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley as the Distinguished Speaker at the 2008 Sumner Bernstein Forum for International Understanding.
In testimony before the Maine Citizens' Trade Committee of the State Legislature, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley explains what the region gains by embracing Atlantica.
The recent inaugural conference of the Southeastern United States -Canada Alliance, shows that the economic relationship linking the Atlantica region to those beyond is growing.
Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Department of Economics and Geography at Hofstra University in New York lays bare the challenge facing the Port of Halifax in the very near term.
New liquified natural gas terminal in Nova Scotia that would serve Canadian and US natural gas markets starting in 2011 demonstrates Atlantica's ability to attract international energy investments.
Former Primier of New Brunswick Frank McKenna outlined several strategies that the Atlantica region should take to successfully seize opportunities in global markets and attract shipping through the Atlantic Gateway.
Comments by Frank McKenna stress that success in the Atlantica region will mean finding ways to transport more efficiently. The former New Brunswick Premier says that with the present state of affairs in the global shipping trade, the time has come for the ports along the East Coast to develop a joint strategy rather than going it alone.
Al Soppitt, President and CEO of Saint John Port Authority, outlined the port's role in linking North American markets with those in Latin America.
A Mexican delegation's attendance at the Maritime Lumber Bureau's annual convention in Halifax highlights links between the Atlantica region and markets further south in North America.