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The Biden administration announced Friday that it is investing more than $653 million to fund 41 port improvement projects across the nation under the Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP).

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.

U.S. agencies are getting wake-up calls from Congress and shippers.

According to Bentz, comprehensive visibility to product and data flows and driving real-or-near-real-time network intelligence on what’s really going on.

The report, entitled “Supply Chain Assessment of the Transportation and Industrial Base: Freight and Logistics,” presents myriad steps and approaches, which can be taken by the federal government, Congress, states, and private companies can take to augment supply chains, both presently and in the future.

If you were asked what drug is more abused by the nation’s 3.5 million long-haul truck drivers, which would you choose—cocaine or marijuana? If you picked cocaine, you would be correct. At least that’s the conclusion of a new study on the topic, which is contrary to reports by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) on the issue.

Economic recovery and pandemic relief upstage harsher rules on truckers, as the overall industry applauds productivity goals. In the meantime, big environmental rules loom at EPA, while one large TL carrier wants to speed up the process to obtain a Commercial Driver’s License.

​The apparent hacking of the nation’s major East Coast oil pipeline by the Russia-backed DarkSide cyberattack group is giving the Biden administration more ammunition to pass its $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan (AJP).

Earlier this week, a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) was issued by the United States Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration, which encourages states and port authorities to apply for $230 million in discretionary grant funding for port and intermodal infrastructure-related projects through the Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP).

Pete Buttigieg has been overwhelmingly confirmed as the nation’s 19th Transportation Secretary. Let the cheerleading begin for President Joe Biden’s call for a “think big” approach to infrastructure modernization.

New Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, sensing a historic opportunity in the first 100 days of the Biden administration, is hoping the time is finally right for a “big, bold” infrastructure package perhaps as large as $1 trillion.

Pete Buttigieg is President-elect Joe Biden's choice for secretary of transportation, making the 38-year-old former South Bend, Ind., mayor in charge of improving the nation’s decaying infrastructure. In Buttigieg, Biden appears to be elevating transportation from a backwater 58,000-person agency to one led by a legitimate star-power politician staking his future on the nation’s ability to move people and freight.

The October reading—at 131.7—was up 0.1% compared to September, up sequentially for the second straight month, and was down 4.5% compared to October 2019. The October reading is 6.9% below the all-time high of 141.5 recorded in August 2019.

The United States Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported this week that its Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) eked out a slight increase in July, the most recent month for which data is available, up 0.3%, to 128.9, compared to June’s 128.5, which was revised from an initial reading of 128.3.

At a time when it the current federal transportation authorization—the FAST (Fixing America’s Surface Transportation) Act—is set to expire, at the end of September, the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) this week issued a National Freight Strategic Plan (NFSP).