Washington – Port, waterways and transportation operators to the Trump administration say a national transport program will be incomplete without a significant focus on maritime transport.
Comments provided to US Department of Transportation by Bandar Los Angeles, US Waterway Operators (AWO) and the National Conference on Waterways are a common theme: This maritime transportation is worthless and should be a higher priority in the Dot National Transport Strategic Plan (NFSP).
“Failure to recognize and include transportation in water, and the elimination of sea and network facilities in this national transport framework, creates a link between our ports and waterways and the broader goals of transport transport, and the needs of a more balanced and pervasive approach in the NFSP.” And agricultural exporters.
The UFner also noted: The designated map of the current National Multiodal Transport Network (NMFN) – used in relation to NFSP – includes only 138 public ports, despite data showing more than 350 public ports “and thousands of private terminals in active use”. “At the same time, other modes, including the private rail, are abundant on the map.”
The Seroka, executive director of the Los Angeles port, emphasized that “the whole government’s approach” is needed for maritime policies, recommend that Dot integrates a national maritime strategy with NFSP “which is very important to improve supply chain resistance, strengthen economic competition and national security progress,” he wrote in the statements.
Seroka told Dot that a $ 1.5 billion project announced last month to raise the Vincent Thomas Bridge, a suspended bridge that is going through the port and is heavily used by trucks inside and outside the port, an example of how to integrate road and marine strategies.
“The current clearance of the bridge is a restriction on the latest cargo ships that prevent access to 40 % of the port’s capacity,” he said. “By raising the bridge by 26 feet to 211 feet, it opens the port to the larger container ships” and maintains a significant amount of the country’s port capacity, “he said.
The port also led DOT to expand corridor identification criteria for access to production and agriculture to access logistics centers and retail centers, “which shows a significant portion of the modern economy”.
AWO, which represents Barge companies and other people working on the interior and coastal waterways, from Dot and Market, the Dot Agency, must be coordinated with other federal agencies to integrate domestic maritime highways into the strategy. Supervision.
Stepard also suggested that Dot and Mad be coordinated with transportation “to identify opportunities for use of maritime transport to meet their needs.
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