The weekend might have seen employers and labour in the US east and Gulf coast ports finally come to an agreement and put to bed the prospect of a potentially crippling strike, but the country’s port system remains urgently in need of investment to cater for future growth, as does its decaying inland waterway system. But the required federal funds do not seem to be materialising.
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