US ports accuse government of planning under-investment
US ports and their private-sector partners will invest over six times more than the federal government on port-infrastructure over the next five years, the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) has claimed.
The association claimed that the “best-case” scenario for investments by the federal government into national ports through 2020, including land- and water-side connections, amounted to US$25bn.
According to AAPA’s 2016-2020 Port Planned Infrastructure Investment Survey, the association’s member ports and their private-sector partners plan instead to spend a total of US$155bn on port-related freight and passenger infrastructure over the next five years.
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