Shippers association urges policy supporting infrastructure funding
5/27/2009 -
A trade association of shippers is urging the federal government to make freight mobility a higher priority in the multi-year surface transportation funding legislation due for reauthorization this year.
The Freight Stakeholders Coalition announced its 2009 Surface Transportation Reauthorization Platform recently. It includes 10 major items the coalition says need to be included in federal policy to manage what is expected to be a doubling of freight volume in the next 20 years.
The platform stresses infrastructure investment for projects of regional and national significance. It included statements of support from leaders of its 17 member organizations.
“The businesses, large and small, represented by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce understand how critical it is to maintain, modernize and expand the nation’s freight transportation system,” said the statement from Janet F. Kavinoky, transportation infrastructure director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “Freight may not vote, but members of our organizations do, so Congress and the Obama Administration must make moving the commerce a central focus of any transportation-related legislation.”
The Freight Stakeholders Coalition is a trade group of organizations involved in shipping as well as public and private transportation providers.
Contact: Jean Godwin, Freight Stakeholders Coalition, (703) 684-5700.
The Freight Stakeholders Coalition announced its 2009 Surface Transportation Reauthorization Platform recently. It includes 10 major items the coalition says need to be included in federal policy to manage what is expected to be a doubling of freight volume in the next 20 years.
The platform stresses infrastructure investment for projects of regional and national significance. It included statements of support from leaders of its 17 member organizations.
“The businesses, large and small, represented by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce understand how critical it is to maintain, modernize and expand the nation’s freight transportation system,” said the statement from Janet F. Kavinoky, transportation infrastructure director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “Freight may not vote, but members of our organizations do, so Congress and the Obama Administration must make moving the commerce a central focus of any transportation-related legislation.”
The Freight Stakeholders Coalition is a trade group of organizations involved in shipping as well as public and private transportation providers.
Contact: Jean Godwin, Freight Stakeholders Coalition, (703) 684-5700.
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