Following the lead of the highway, airline and transit industries, the American Association of Port Authorities is asking the government for $6.8 billion from the Economic Recovery Package. AAPA has tabbed the money for harbor maintenance and says its members have 153 projects from the Port of Anchorage to Port Canaveral that they say would create 250,000 jobs.
Kurt Nagle, president of the AAPA, said the trade will move somewhere else if our infrastructure can't handle it. Nagle said one-third of the United States' economic growth is from exports, but that number could be higher if the ports were maintained to adequate depths.
Powered by iNet Solutions Group ©2011 All Rights Reserved.