News / New hopes for funding to solve US airport 'cargo infrastructure crisis'

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Efforts to address the chronic congestion across US airfreight gateways are bearing fruit, with hopes of imminent government funds to fix the problem at the nation’s busiest airports.

US Airforwarders Association (AfA) executive director Brandon Fried said that, with truck congestion in airport cargo terminals a “big concern” for some time, amendments to the FAA Authorisation Act served as a “big win”.

“We managed to include a provision in the act requiring the Government Accountability Office ...