UNITED STATE Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao (Photo: GEF)
The UNITED STATE Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) today revealed the classification of 9 Marine Highway Projects and also a Marine Highway Route that, with each other, will certainly profit Connecticut, Florida, Michigan, New York, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington State and also American Samoa.
Marine freeways are accessible rivers that can be utilized as alternating alternatives to standard delivery approaches.
“The designation of marine highways by Congress will help move cargo and people to help grow the economy and shift freight off of congested highways,” claimed Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao.
“Marine highways are an efficient and cost-effective option for moving freight and passengers in America,” claimed Maritime Administrator Mark H. Buzby.
The America’s Marine Highway Program (AMHP) licenses the classification of Marine Highway Routes and alsoMarine Highway Projects A Marine Highway Project is an organized solution, or development of an existing solution, on a marked Marine Highway Route.
Designation makes jobs and also freeway paths qualified to get government financing. Congress appropriated $7 million for the program in Fiscal Year 2019.
The brand-new classifications and also path consist of:
Bridgeport to Port Jefferson Ferry Service: The Bridgeport to Port Jefferson ferryboat solution presently eliminates over 440,000 traveler cars and also virtually 9,000 vehicles from the roadway each year and also eases landside blockage on Long Island, the bridge crossings and also along the I-95 hallway in New York and alsoConnecticut The Ferry Service Expansion consists of the growth of a brand-new modern ferryboat terminal (Barnum Landing) for the Bridgeport & & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company in Bridgeport,Conn
Port of NY to Connecticut Ports Trailer on Barge: By attaching Brooklyn, N.Y., Newark, N.J.,Bridgeport, CT and also various other New England ports along the existing M-95Marine Highway, this barge solution is developed to decrease blockage in the NY/NJ port location and also on the freeways, bridges, and also passages that attach to Interstate 95 right into New England.
M-95 Fernandina Beach to Charleston Barge Service: A brand-new barge solution will certainly assist the Port of Fernandina in Nassau County, the northern most area on the Atlantic coastline in Florida, solution all seaside ports on the Atlantic, consisting of Charleston, S.C., and also add to the decrease of vehicle website traffic on I-95.
Port of Oswego Great Lakes Container Service: The classification will certainly sustain the port’s objective of increasing its reach right into nationwide containerized freight motion, which must assist to decrease on-road vehicle journeys and also relieve blockage at 2 global boundary crossings (Buffalo and also Detroit/Windsor).
Port of Morrow Barge Service Extension: The development of existing solution will certainly sustain the country economic situation and also boost the financial competition of the area by minimizing transport expenses and also rail and also freeway blockage via brand-new possibilities for barge delivery to and also from the port along M-84.
Wallops Island M95 Intermodal Barge Service: The production of a brand-new barge solution will certainly broaden brief sea delivery near Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore ofVirginia This task will certainly expand existing website abilities at Wallops Island, boost STEM study possibilities, and also stimulate high-tech/high-paying tasks in a predominately backwoods.
Seattle– Bainbridge Island Ferry Service: This solution provides a much faster, extra dependable, and also much safer option to the circuitous roadway links where products and also traveler cars would certainly or else follow Interstate 5 (I-5) and also State Route (SR) 16, in addition to SR 3 and also SR 305.
Houston Gateway & & Gulf Container-On-Barge Central Node: As recommended the task would certainly decrease landside blockage via the production of specialized central Container on Barge centers offering the M-69, M-146, and also M-10 aquatic freeways.
American Samoa Inter-Island Ferry Service: As a freshly marked Marine Highway path and also marked task, the Port of Pago Pago will certainly boost both intra-island and also inter-island transport to the external islands, consisting of the motion of products, to eventually advertise the growth and also development of these reasonably separated locations.
