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 as well as a Marine Highway Route that, with each other, will certainly profit Connecticut, Florida, Michigan, New York, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington State as well as American Samoa.
Marine freeways are accessible rivers that can be utilized as alternative choices to typical 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,” stated Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao.
“Marine highways are an efficient and cost-effective option for moving freight and passengers in America,” stated Maritime Administrator Mark H. Buzby.
The America’s Marine Highway Program (AMHP) licenses the classification of Marine Highway Routes as well asMarine 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 as well as freeway courses qualified to look for government financing. Congress appropriated $7 million for the program in Fiscal Year 2019.
The brand-new classifications as well as path consist of:
Bridgeport to Port Jefferson Ferry Service: The Bridgeport to Port Jefferson ferryboat solution presently eliminates over 440,000 guest lorries as well as virtually 9,000 vehicles from the roadway yearly as well as soothes landside blockage on Long Island, the bridge crossings as well as along the I-95 hallway in New York as well asConnecticut The Ferry Service Expansion consists of the growth of a brand-new cutting edge ferryboat terminal (Barnum Landing) for the Bridgeport & & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company in Bridgeport,Conn
Port of NY to Connecticut Ports Trailer on Barge: By linking Brooklyn, N.Y., Newark, N.J.,Bridgeport, CT as well as various other New England ports along the existing M-95Marine Highway, this barge solution is created to decrease blockage in the NY/NJ port location as well as on the freeways, bridges, as well as 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 shore in Florida, solution all seaside ports on the Atlantic, consisting of Charleston, S.C., as well as add to the decrease of vehicle web 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 activity, which ought to assist to decrease on-road vehicle journeys as well as reduce blockage at 2 worldwide boundary crossings (Buffalo as well as Detroit/Windsor).
Port of Morrow Barge Service Extension: The development of existing solution will certainly sustain the country economic climate as well as boost the financial competition of the area by minimizing transport prices as well as rail as well as freeway blockage via brand-new chances for barge delivery to as well as from the port along M-84.
Wallops Island M95 Intermodal Barge Service: The development 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 chances, as well as stimulate high-tech/high-paying tasks in a predominately backwoods.
Seattle– Bainbridge Island Ferry Service: This solution provides a much faster, a lot more dependable, as well as more secure choice to the circuitous roadway links where products as well as guest lorries would certainly or else follow Interstate 5 (I-5) as well as State Route (SR) 16, along with SR 3 as well as SR 305.
Houston Gateway & & Gulf Container-On-Barge Central Node: As suggested the task would certainly decrease landside blockage via the development of committed central Container on Barge centers offering the M-69, M-146, as well as M-10 aquatic freeways.
American Samoa Inter-Island Ferry Service: As a freshly marked Marine Highway path as well as marked task, the Port of Pago Pago will certainly boost both intra-island as well as inter-island transport to the external islands, consisting of the activity of products, to inevitably advertise the growth as well as development of these fairly separated locations.
