Port Performance Freight Stats Group To Meet Next Month

The Port Performance Freight Statistics Working Group will meet from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on July 15 at the Transportation Department to provide advice and recommendations to Bureau of Transportation Statistics Director Patricia Hu on matters including the Port Performance Freight Statistics Program and a process to collect timely and consistent data while protecting proprietary information, DOT said (here). The working group’s objective is to harmonize measures of U.S. large port performance, reporting yearly to Congress on port capacity and throughput. The group was created through the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act.