“America’s Marine Highway Program is an innovative program that encourages the use of America’s navigable waterways for the movement of freight and people, reducing congestion on land-based transportation,” said Maritime Administrator Ann Phillips. “Today’s announcement will help improve our marine highway system across the country, alleviating congestion, modernizing port operations, and ultimately lowering the cost of goods for American families.” “At a time of record demand for goods, it’s more important than ever to strengthen our supply chains so our manufacturers can grow, and American families can get the things they need quickly and affordably,” said U.S. Thanks to this year’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the AMHP received an additional $25 million in funding-the largest single investment in the program ever. The other projects that received grants were located in Puerto Rico, Washington, California, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Guam and Wisconsin. This vessel doesn’t have a crane for container loading/unloading, thus making this equipment critical to enable operations. The service will utilize a Green Shipping Line’s Jones Act-compliant vessel modified for containerized cargo. The funds will go toward the purchase of a fully mobile reach stacker for loading and unloading containers, making it versatile for transporting and stacking containers at the port’s facility. In New York, the Port of Oswego Authority received $754,000 for the Oswego Port Great Lakes Container Service Reach Stacker Project.The grant will help increase cargo handling capacity and reduce landside congestion and air emissions. The funds will go toward the purchase of 70 chassis that will be used to support the continued growth of the Baton Rouge-New Orleans Shuttle Service. In Louisiana, SEACOR AMH LLC was awarded $1,050,000.Louis’ Municipal River Terminal, America’s Central Port (Granite City, Ill.), and the Madison Harbor (Madison, Ill.). This equipment will be located at the Port Authority of St. The funds will go toward the purchase of four modern, fuel-efficient, and environmentally friendly Hyster forklifts, a Manitowoc Cable Crane to load/unload unitized cargo onto barges, and a barge winch system to load/unload unitized cargo onto barges as well. In Illinois & Missouri, Midcoast Terminal, operated by SCF Lewis and Clark Terminal LLC, was awarded $2,418,500 for the M-55/M-35 Marine Highway Barge Project.Investments will provide improved access to the terminal and equipment will provide efficient and effective material handling capabilities. The America’s Marine Highway Grant funds will go toward purchasing equipment to operate the terminal and equip the bridge crane to handle containers. In Arkansas, the West Helena/Phillips County Port Authority was awarded $2,872,414 for Helena Harbor M-55 Container-on-Barge Project.Many of the projects build up infrastructure for container-on-barge operations. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration announced October 6 that it has awarded nearly $39 million in grants to 12 marine highway projects across the nation under the America’s Marine Highway Program (AMHP)-including some important inland waterway projects.

Modern dredge