USDOT Opens Applications for $800 Million: “FASTLANE” Freight Grants

Fully empowering local creativity, or funding an uncoordinated muddle of disconnected projects that actually don't add up to a strategic investment and infrastructure plan? Well, the US Government is now really putting significant tax funding behind freight project funding. At GLDPartners, we're not sure that we are necessarily spending toward a comprehensive and coordinated national business strategy, but at least we are allowing state and local officials to use their own project inventiveness. From our corporate and sector intelligence work, we see special market opportunity at and around airports and seaports. Let's hope that we see projects that are able to solve cargo movement problems and create economic growth.

By |2019-06-14T11:04:22-07:00February 29th, 2016|Blog, Uncategorized|

US National Freight Plan Draft – We’ve Made A Lot of Progress. But Not There Yet.

A vast step forward and accolades are deserved to many for pushing us along toward a thoughtful and comprehensive strategy for freight planning and investment. It's been a long time and somehow this has been very challenging. That said, let me underline that like most "freight" studies and strategies, it seems that there is still a wall between economic strategy, competitiveness assessing and freight planning.

By |2016-10-26T11:43:43-07:00February 28th, 2016|Blog, Uncategorized|

Is Reshoring Investment Down? and if it is down, why and what’s the future?

An interesting read published in Electronics Purchasing Strategies about the status of reshoring investment from Asia. It's always interesting to hear the debates between the advocates and the pessimists - the truth is almost always somewhere in between.  The article uses the backdrop of an AT Kearny report that speaks to tepid numbers, but the [...]

By |2019-06-14T11:04:22-07:00February 20th, 2016|Blog, Uncategorized|

Leading Air Freight Forwarders Lose Market Share: Lloyds Loading List

Will Waters writes in the current Lloyds Loading List that the Top 20 and top 100 agents outgrown by their SME rivals last year, with those outside the top 100 achieving average increases of 3.8%" according to WorldACD data. Sometimes data-watching is tedious and sometimes over time you glean important trends. With the overwhelming amounts of data that we all have access to today, it's difficult to sift through and distinguish between the meaningful and trivial.

By |2019-06-14T11:04:23-07:00February 15th, 2016|Blog, Uncategorized|

Washington Releases Details About Freight Projects Funding

Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects A few days ago, US Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Anthony Foxx released a letter stating that DOT will publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity in the Federal Register requesting applications for the Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects (NSFHP). A fact sheet was also released noting $800 million [...]

By |2019-06-14T11:04:24-07:00February 10th, 2016|Blog, Uncategorized|

Per Kjellgren Joins GLDPartners to Focus on Ports and Terminals Practice

We are pleased to announce that Per Kjellgren has joined GLDPartners as a Partner – Seaports/Terminals. Per Kjellgren will lead GLDPartners’ Seaports and Terminals Practice.  He is a senior Transportation and Infrastructure Executive with over 30 years’ experience in leading and developing companies and organizations within the transportation, leasing and financial services sectors. Prior to joining GLDPartners [...]

By |2019-06-14T11:04:24-07:00February 3rd, 2016|Blog, Uncategorized|

Site-selector survey ranks US states for new investment

From the January edition of Site Selection Magazine, some very interesting results are worth considering. The consultants that advise companies on location strategy consistently focus on taxes and incentives as the top factors for new project evaluation.  On the other hand, executives from the companies considering new facility locations rank workforce, taxes and transportation infrastructure [...]

By |2019-06-14T11:04:25-07:00February 2nd, 2016|Blog, Uncategorized|

Alaska: A New Global Air Cargo/Value-Add Center

A new entity was announced this week in Anchorage Alaska, the new Alaska Aeronexus Alliance has been created to attract global investment at and around the Ted Stevens International Airport (ANC) in Anchorage.  With ANC being the 5th busiest cargo airport in the world and supported by an unusual air cargo transfer flexibility, the thinking is that certain supply [...]

By |2016-10-30T21:46:08-07:00January 29th, 2016|Blog, Uncategorized|
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