This study attempts to fit a global demand model for soybean traffic through the Panama Canal using Ordinary Least …, bunker costs, soybean export inspections from the U.S. Gulf and Pacific Northwest, U.S. Gulf soybean basis levels, Brazil … sources, Brazil's Secretariat of Foreign Trade (SECEX) and from Panama Canal transit information. Finally, after estimation of …

The United States and Brazil fiercely compete with each other in the Chinese soybean import market. Logistical … commodity trading strategies and the effect of logistical functions and costs in the United States and Brazil for shipments to … share of soybean export shipments between December and March while Brazil is dominant from April to November. Sensitivity …

On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and … Panama, the United States, and the world, The Big Ditch deftly chronicles the economic and political history of the Canal …, from Spain's earliest proposals in 1529 through the final handover of the Canal to Panama on December 31, 1999, to the …