Smart Rivers Conference 2017 Utilization of Marine Highway 95 for Integrated Marine Transportation on the U.S. Atlantic Coast Brad Pickel Executive Director Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association Smart Rivers Conference 2017 September 20, 2017
How are we going to get all those Amazon Prime shipments delivered? Brad Pickel Executive Director Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association Smart Rivers Conference 2017 September 20, 2017
Photo taken by Troup Nightingale, Tow Boat US Brunswick GA Photo taken by Troup Nightingale, Tow Boat US Brunswick GA. Near Jekyll Creek
Beyond Traffic 2045 Report by the Maritime Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation
Trends: How We Move Things …
American Trucking Association Driver Shortage Analysis as included in the State of Trucking 2017
A MODAL COMPARISON OF DOMESTIC FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION EFFECTS ON THE GENERAL PUBLIC: 2001–2014 (Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Jan 2017)
A MODAL COMPARISON OF DOMESTIC FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION EFFECTS ON THE GENERAL PUBLIC: 2001–2014 (Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Jan 2017)
Why water? We have no choice!
$1.934 Billion $1.9 Billion FY 09 FY 17
FY17 Funding for the AIWW/IWW Virginia- $5,640,000 North Carolina- $5,333,000 South Carolina- $20,075,000 Georgia- $6,181,000 Florida- $10,650,000 Total- $47,879,000, $32,275,000 Supplemental Estimated $50.5 million annual maintenance need (USACE, 2017)
Amount of money to return AIWW/IWW to authorized depth Virginia- $18,000,000 North Carolina- $11,000,000 South Carolina- $54,000,000 Georgia- $22,591,000 Florida- $0 Total- Approximately $106 million
Looking forward Continue advocacy for Additional Federal Funding in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers budget for Inland Waterways and Small, Remote or Subsistence Navigation Identify opportunities to increase waterway use by commercial operators (e.g. M-64 Express- Port of Virginia to Port of Richmond- 15k Truck Trips) Investigate and develop non-federal funding modeled after North Carolina and Florida Support and encourage innovative and beneficial use solutions for dredge material management
Thank you!