Infrastructure

The Fort McHenry Limited Access Channel provides a way for commercial ships that have been stranded to finally exit

Turns out Baltimore needs the supply chain more than the supply chain needs Baltimore. In the wake of the March 26 horrific bridge collapse that closed the Port of Baltimore to maritime vessels, shutting down one of the busiest ports in America has meant … not that much to maritime shippers. They just moved freight to New York, Newport News, Va., or Savannah, Ga.

The collapse of the 47-year-old, 1.6-mile Francis Scott Key Bridge is going to have supply chain repercussions for months, if not longer, supply chain experts are saying.

More than $4.9 billion in funding for from the White House’s “Investing in America” initiative was announced by President Biden and Transportation Secretary Buttigieg for 37 projects through two discretionary grant programs, the National Infrastructure Project Assistance (Mega) grant program, which awarded $2.0 billion in grants, and the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grant program, which awarded $2.9 billion in grants.

Thanks to a trio of bills passed in the past few years, investment in U.S. manufacturing is at all-time highs, and that means the economy could be poised to take off again.

A recently-held House Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I) Committee hearing focused on implementation and oversight of the bipartisan $1.2 billion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, with a sharp focus on “ensuring it is implemented as Congress intended.”

A pair of key Washington, D.C.-based organizations—the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce—gave positive feedback on a revised memo issued by the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) framework focused on how states utilize funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or BIL).

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There used to be a time when terms like supply chain, infrastructure, and others related to the logistics-focused worlds we live in would get little, if any, attention, in a State of the Union (SOTU) address. Well, it is fair to say, that has clearly changed and was on full display in President Biden’s address to the nation last night.

American Trucking Associations (ATA) President and CEO Chris Spear urged Congress to take steps to exercise oversight over the implementation of the law, officially called the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Truckers want to ensure that taxpayers and the supply chain get the maximum return on the $1.2 trillion of investment the legislation provides.

The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) recently announced it published a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for $1.5 billion in grants through its 2023 Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainable and Equity (RAISE) discretionary grant program.

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Infrastructure vital to service success.

It is somewhat cruelly ironic that the singularly bipartisan accomplishment of the Biden administration, the 2,702-page, trillion-dollar infrastructure bill passed with much fanfare by Congress last year, is cited as a factor in the highest inflation rate in 40 years.

The first task was passing President Joe Biden’s massive $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, his signature accomplishment of his first two years in office. Now comes an equally arduous challenge: making sure that money is spent as it was intended without the waste and inefficiency that sometimes marks spending by the federal government.