by CivMetrics Staff | Aug 19, 2022 | Infrastructure, Ports, Transportation, Uncategorized
Communities in Alaska will be seeing major infrastructure improvements on their roads, docks, and bus facilities after Senator Murkowski recently announced that the state is a recipient of $57.1 million in grants from the Federal Transit Administration and U.S....
by CivMetrics Staff | Aug 19, 2022 | Infrastructure, Ports, Uncategorized
As part of the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program, the North Carolina Ports Authority receives $18 million in federal grants for the construction of a intermodal yard facility. According to the USDOT, the funding of the...
by CivMetrics Staff | Aug 18, 2022 | Infrastructure, Ports, Transportation, Uncategorized
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced that Utah will be receiving a total of $25.4 million in grants through the the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program. The federal grant will be divided between two projects in...
by Mary Scott Nabers | Jun 21, 2022 | Infrastructure, Ports, Uncategorized
Port operations throughout the world were damaged when the pandemic occurred. The effects of COVID were significant and the problems have lingered. Supply chain disruptions, port congestion, cruise ship restrictions, budgets stretched to the limit, and limited...
by CivMetrics Staff | Jun 19, 2022 | Infrastructure, Ports, Uncategorized
Port M&A intensified in 2021, according to a recent research brief which outlines the latest trends in port economics, including the COVID-induced supply chain crisis. Theo Notteboom, Professor of Port and Maritime Economics at the University of Antwerp, writes:...
by CivMetrics Staff | Jun 17, 2022 | Infrastructure, Ports, Uncategorized
Cyber attacks orchestrated against ports are no longer a hypothetical; stakeholders now must understand the economic losses that could come from such an attack. But how to quantify such losses? A new paper in Transportation Research offers a look at the economic...
