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US Funding Progress For Waterways & Ports: We Still Need a Lot More Focus
In an article yesterday in The Maritime Executive, an article was offered talking about progress on the Senate side to fund $6B for improvements to the navigable waterways in the US and also in the [...]
Something Much Larger? APM Terminals Announces Morocco Port Investment
This large scale seaport project in Morocco represents the sort of joined-up strategy that will help shape how logistics and production will intersect in some highly strategic locations. There's a bit of obvious similarity with Panama but there are other more established settings with some similar opportunity. We'll be talking more about this in the coming months,
Google’s Krafcik Talks about Autonomous Vehicle Adoption “Process”
As automakers add advanced driver-assist systems to conventional passenger vehicles, they are developing one path to the fully autonomous vehicle—but not the only one. So, the inevitable question: When will fully self-driving cars arrive and what will they be like? Google, with years of experience in this area, has predicted as early as 2020. Work underway was described by the project's CEO, John Krafcik, who spoke at the recent J.D. Power/NADA/NY Auto Show forum.
First US Manufactured Airbus Aircraft
In 2012 Airbus announced that they would build a final assembly facility in Mobile, AL, assembling the A319, A-320, and A-321 aircraft. Over the last three years, the Company has built the systems and assets to fully produce an airplane in North America, and that's a pretty significant milestone for Airbus but also for the aerospace industry.
Key Supply Chain Trends Are Shaping Opportunity in Europe and North America
Some quite striking supply chain trends in several key tech sectors are beginning to make significant impacts globally, and in particular on established logistics patterns in North America and Europe. In industries like pharma research and production, clinical trials management and in the wider automotive sector - especially in the space of next-gen propulsion systems, autonomy and lightweighting, there are some dramatic evolutions taking place which will have great consequences to existing logistics patterns, specifically to carriers, airports and to established cluster regions. Given this dynamic situation, we see that well-positioned transport assets have a window of opportunity to take advantage of these trends for both revenue growth and asset monetization.
US Federal Funding: Letters of Interest Requested for the TIFIA Program
The US DoT has now released its public request for letters of interest for TIFIA supported projects. Generally, TIFIA can support the finance of a wide range of transport infrastructure projects including highway, transit, passenger rail, certain freight facilities, certain port projects, and rural infrastructure