U.S. Moves Ahead With Marine Highway Program
The United States Department of Transportation continues to promote its new initiative, the "America's Marine Highway" program. The Department's goal: enhance the amount of shipping traffic moving through the country's maritime transportation corridors, thereby easing the load on increasingly-congested land routes while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The Marine Highway Program has brought benefits to the Gulf Coast, as a sea route across the Gulf, the "M-10," will build on existing container-on-barge service between Brownsville, Texas, and Port Manatee, Florida. The M-10 route spans five states and ten major metropolitan areas and currently sees service via a single ship that travels on a 10-day interval. This reflects just one of several routes intended to expand traffic to and from Gulf-based ports.
Funding for the Marine Highway Project is being made pursuant to the second-round Transportation Infrastructure Generating Economic Recovery, or TIGER II, program, itself part of the national economic stimulus program established under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
For additional information on the expansion of the Marine Highway Program, please visit GulfCoastMaritime.com.
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