U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, joined state and local transit leaders Thursday to discuss the more than $168 million in federal funds directed t...
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The National Industrial Transportation League (NITL), a trade association representing industrial freight transportation shippers, recently said it supports the introduction of legislation modernizing...
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced Friday that the state would invest an additional $246 million into the Port of Philadelphia for continued modernization efforts. The funding builds upon the $3...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced Thursday that more than $4.7 billion in transit funding was available to transit agencies, states, and Tribal g...
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Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee's fiscal year 2023 budget proposal includes $46 million in State Fiscal Recovery Funds for the Port of Galilee project. The Narragansett-based state port is the state's...
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Three members of Massachusetts’ congressional delegation hosted a meeting Friday to discuss the future of the Cape Cod Canal Bridges. U.S. Sens. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation announced it is making available $1.5 billion in Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) grant funds. The RAISE program help...
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The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) recently awarded nearly $111.4 million to 37 transit systems statewide to advance 51 projects through the Rebuild Illinois capital program. The prog...
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The U.S. Corps of Engineers will invest $14 billion to strengthen port and waterway supply chains, the White House said in a fact sheet on Wednesday. As part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, ...
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The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) Harbors Division recently entered into first port agreements with Carnival Cruise Line and Norwegian Cruise Lines to resume cruise line operations in the...
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Officials with the Port of Oakland announced Monday that they were ready to launch an interagency effort to improve the flow of agricultural exports at the Port. The new program involves the use o...
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The Port of Los Angeles is proposing a plan to charge ocean carriers that allow empty containers to remain on the port’s marine terminals for nine days or longer. The fee, which will be presente...
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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack urged the world’s ocean carriers to mitigate disruptions to agricultural shippers of U.S. exports, and to rel...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) announced it had awarded $12.6 million in grants to nine marine highway projects across the country Friday. Funded through...
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The U.S. House of Representatives advanced legislation last week to reform the ocean shipping industry. The Ocean Shipping Reform Act (H.R. 4996), introduced by U.S. Reps. John Garamendi (D-CA) and...
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Oregon’s Congressional delegation recently sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Office of Management and Budget urging funding for the state’s port infrastructure as the Army ...
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Rep. Don Young (R-AK) is espousing the benefits of the state's Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) MV Tustumena replacement plan via the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). "The AMHS is ...
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam will be passing onto his successor, Glenn Youngkin, a comprehensive multimodal transportation system that is stronger and forward-looking, Northam said a the annual Governo...
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U.S. freight activity will grow 50 percent to 28.7 billion tons between 2020 and 2050, and will double in value to $36.2 trillion, according to an industry forecast recently published by the U.S. Depa...
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The Biden-Harris administration recently released its Port Action Plan to accelerate investment in U.S. ports, waterways, and freight networks. Recommendations in the plan would be funded through t...
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