AAPA Sends List of Policy Recommendations to Trump Transition Team
The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) called on President-elect Donald Trump to request more and to fairly disperse allocations for harbor maintenance tax (HMT) spending and boost federal investments in navigation channel deepening and widening, among other things, AAPA…
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said (here). In a document the group sent to Trump’s transition team (here), AAPA also urged the incoming administration to provide 500 more CBP maritime staff at U.S. seaports, promote installation and upkeep of radiation portal monitors at U.S. ports, and bump up the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Port Security Grant Program funding level. “Local ports and their private-sector partners plan to invest nearly $155 billion into infrastructure over the next five years,” AAPA CEO Kurt Nagle said in a statement. “Leveraging federal investments in seaport and freight-related programs will yield huge dividends in the form of economic growth, maintaining and creating jobs, enhancing America’s international competitiveness and sustaining a healthy environment.” AAPA also recommended the upcoming administration create a “21st Century Port Portfolio” in the Department of Energy to facilitate coordination between ports and DOE on technologies that reduce emissions, electrify port operations, and support new clean energy terminal designs and construction.