Baltimore Disaster Adds Urgency to Calls for US Maritime Policy Reform, Port Investment

By John Haughey President Joe Biden, in an executive order this February, directed $20 billion in allocations from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill (BIL) into a five-year grant program dedicated to modernizing America’s 361 commercial ports. The money is welcome but not nearly enough to overcome decades of neglect in comprehensive federal port investment and a half-century absence…

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