The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) has proposed new fees on containers moved through California seaports. On March 3, the SCAQMD adopted a “comprehensive clean air blueprint” that it said would improve the health and lives of all residents across its region by reducing ozone and particulate matter emissions as required by the federal Clean Air Act.
To read the Administration’s preliminary budget – released by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a week ago – you might not realize that this is the same President who ran on a platform to rebuild America’s infrastructure and create jobs. Referred to as the “skinny budget,” by the Administration, this preliminary FY 2018 federal budget targets the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for a $2.4 billion budget reduction, and a $946 million reduction to the department’s FY 2017 budget. Included in those reductions will be the elimination of many of the Department’s discretionary grant programs – TIGER, FAST Lane, new starts, small starts, essential air service, and Amtrak’s long-distance train service – and research programs including intelligent transportation systems and vehicle safety. The Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s community block grant program are also on the chopping block.
Adam Wasserman will be speaking on the topic of "The Evolution of the Global Supply Chain Model" later this month at Business Facilities LiveXchange event in Park City, UT. Developed twelve years ago to "streamline the site selection process", the event is an exclusive event for site selectors and consultants who are searching for new locations for their corporate expansion and relocation projects.
GLDPartners has been asked by Merced County (California) to take on the management of its economic development program.
The Goliath's are struggling against the David's. The next 5-10 years will yield some fairly fundamental answers about how large parts of our economy will be shaped. The status quo is no longer. It's happening in the automotive sector and its also happening in the retail sector, at least to an extent
What was widely expected in freight railroad and intermodal circles became official on March 6th, when Class I railroad carrier CSX officially announced that E. Hunter Harrison was named CEO of Jacksonville, Fla.-based CSX. WSJ’s Jacquie McNish and David Benoit reported that the announcement ended a fight over control of CSX by giving the Hunter Harrison a four-year contract and a mandate to overhaul operations at one of the country’s biggest railways. But the changes won’t be assured to happen until after the railroad holds its annual meeting.
GLDP's next webinar will be held on March 15th at 2PM EST and the topic will be: Ports and Terminals: Operating in a New Business Environment. The logistics world is being impacted by several key dynamics: a quickening pace of disruptive geopolitical change and rather fundamental evolution in some key sector and supply chains. GLDPartners will present a dossier-view of how these issues are colliding - and some suggestions about maintaining and enhancing seaport competiveness.
Our next webinar will be held on February 15th at 2PM EST and the topic will be: Washington's Direction: Implications for Trade, Infrastructure and Economic Development. About 25 days into the new US Administration, GLDPartners will present an update on policy direction concerning trade agreements and infrastructure investment and the implications for ports, airports and economic development.
GLDPartners will again host a webinar in its Washington Outlook Series about topics that are timely & pertinent to the firm's client's and friends about market trends, policy and project finance concerning transportation, logistics, supply chain, infrastructure finance and economic development. This timely web briefing will be held on March 8th at 2PM EST and the topic will be: Update at the 50 Day Mark - A Legislative and Budget Outlook for US Seaports.
Early in December GLDPartners visited Sheridan Wyoming to collaborate with the economic development entity Forward Sheridan and its community partners to assess the Sheridan economic development investment attraction opportunity, particularly in terms of tech-related manufacturing.