A new bill sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will provide cities with $10 Billion to remove highways from crowded cities but what will replace them? Electric cargo scooters?…
marine highways
Why We Need To Rethink Inland Waterways
Op-Ed by Antoon Van Coillie (Blueline Logistics) A tsunami is gathering pace that will overwhelm the inland waterway transport industry in Europe over the next 10 to 15 years, and will change the maritime industry profoundly. This tsunami is called sustainability. The present inland waterway fleet...
MARAD Designates New Marine Highway Projects
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) has announced the designation of nine Marine Highway Projects and a Marine Highway Route, helping shift the transportation of cargo and people from the highways to the nation’s waterways. MARAD said the new designations will...
Short Sea Distribution Featured In Sunday New York Times
Today’s New York Times features Harbor Harvest’s first SSEADIS – Short Sea Distribution – Vessel. What if there were a way to reduce delays by diverting cargo and transporting it by boat across the Long Island Sound — a sort of marine highway — instead? Robert Kunkel, a retired marine engineer, is...
After Decades Of Failure I Am Confident Short Sea Shipping Will Return To The USA. Here’s Why Along With A Word Of Caution.
Today’s episode of The REAL gCaptain Podcast was recorded in the wake of the Blue Highway Conference hosted by SUNY Maritime College. We report on major work being done by MARAD and maritime industry stakeholders to defibrillate the once vibrant but now ailing near coastal and inland waterway...
Marine highways called answer to interstate jams
A few miles east of a never-ending traffic jam on I-95 heading for the George Washington Bridge, port officials and barge operators said new marine highway routes can help deal with mounting congestion in the Northeast.
“The capacity lies back on the water. That’s where it all began. Before we had a rail and road system, that’s how we did it,” said Rear Adm. Mark Buzby, administrator of the U.S. Maritime Administration, speaking at a marine highway conference hosted Thursday by the State...