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WRDA Words

The Senate is about to take up the first water resources bill since President George W. Bush signed WRDA 2007 into law.  By the count of many stakeholders–ports, river dependent shippers, flood… more →

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WRDA Words

PaulHBea wrote 2 weeks ago: The Senate is about to take up the first water resources bill since President George W. Bush signed … more →

Tags: Infrastructure, Ports, Water Resources, Appropriations, Channels, Dredging, Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, USACE, WRDA

A Red Cape Wish List

PaulHBea wrote 2 months ago: The first formal expression of what the Obama Administration is looking for in a water resources bil … more →

Tags: Environment, Infrastructure, Ports, Water Resources, Channels, Congress, Dredging, Global Warming, Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund

Two Trust Funds in Search of a Solution — 4 comments

PaulHBea wrote 6 months ago: Yesterday Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander (R) stood near Chickamauga Lock in Chattanooga and said, … more →

Tags: Ports, Infrastructure, MTS Policy, Water Resources, Appropriations, California, Channels, Congress, Dredging

FMC on HMT: Unintended Consequences — 2 comments

PaulHBea wrote 7 months ago: In July the Federal Maritime Commission released a study that claims a relationship between the Harb … more →

Tags: Federal Government, Ports, Infrastructure, Water Resources, Congress, Competition, Federal Maritime Commission, Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, NAFTA

Where's My Refund?: Ford Motor Co. v. United States

Adonica Wada wrote 1 year ago: John Lund/Blend Images/GettyImages Unfortunately, for Ford Motor Company, the check is not in the ma … more →

Tags: customs, Export, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Trade, U. S. Supreme Court, Export, HMT, Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, Unconstitutional

HMTF: A Bump and RAMP Strategy — 2 comments

PaulHBea wrote 1 year ago: Bump and RAMP doesn’t sound like a sophisticated legislative strategy.  It certainly isn … more →

Tags: Ports, Infrastructure, Water Resources, Appropriations, Channels, Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, Dredging

Obama Administration Prefers to Waste Energy

maddenmaritime wrote 1 year ago: Ton-mile (noun) : A unit of freight transportation equivalent to a ton of freight moved one mile. Wh … more →

Tags: Merchant Marine, short sea shipping, Maritime Administration, Marad, Transportation

HMTF: RAMP Gets Its Chance — 3 comments

PaulHBea wrote 1 year ago: HR 7, the surface transportation (and energy) bill that was reported from the Transportation and Inf … more →

Tags: Ports, Congress, Appropriations, Channels, Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, Dredging, Ramp

HMTF: The Seven Billion Dollar Clue — 4 comments

PaulHBea wrote 1 year ago: The Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) is overdue for a remedy. How do we know? The unspent balanc … more →

Tags: Ports, MTS Policy, Water Resources, Appropriations, USACE, NY/NJ, Channels, Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, WRDA

"What's Taking So Long?" — 1 comment

PaulHBea wrote 1 year ago: I filed a version of this with the good folks at the Connecticut Maritime Coalition whose Deep Water … more →

Tags: Surface Transportation Policy, marine highway, AMH, Marad, marine highways, TIGER grants

Time for a Maritime Title — 2 comments

PaulHBea wrote 1 year ago: In a few days we will see if there is a maritime title, or section, in what is traditionally the hig … more →

Tags: MTS Policy, Surface Transportation Policy, marine highway, Water Resources, intermodal, marine highways, taxes, Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, surface transportation

HMT Exemption: Just What the Dock Is Ordering

PaulHBea wrote 2 years ago: It is good to see that some U.S. House Members reintroduced legislation to waive the Harbor Maintena … more →

Tags: Infrastructure, marine highway, intermodal, marine highways, Congress


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