U.S. ports are feeling effects of Panama Canal expansion

The expansion of the Panama Canal, completed less than a year ago, is already having an impact on commerce at the Georgia Ports Authority in Savannah.

"We’re seeing bigger ships come in to the U.S. East Coast, which is going to benefit everybody," Cliff Pyron, chief commercial officer at the Georgia Ports Authority, told Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF) members who toured...