America transports $180 billion worth of freight across 38 states on inland waterways. However, as AGC has long advocated, the nation’s inland waterway infrastructure system needs adequate investment to keep up with freight demand.
USA Today underscored that point in a recent article.
As the article notes, “Inadequate investment led to nearly 80,000 hours of lock outages in fiscal 2010, four times more than in fiscal 2000.”
