News / 'Outdated' US intermodal infrastructure is letting us down, claim farmers and exporters

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A coalition of US farmers and their forwarders claims the country’s logistics infrastructure is “inadequate” and domestic business is losing out to imports.

Board member of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition (AgTC) Donna Lemm told a Senate committee hearing this week that failing intermodal transport threatened the US economy.

“All over the country we are faced with bottlenecks, delays and handcuffs in our ability to execute within the supply chain,” she said.

“Surging imports have clogged ports and, in turn, trains moving inland have ...