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原文传递 Infrastructure Report Card Adds Powerful Voice

题名：	Infrastructure Report Card Adds Powerful Voice
正文语种：	eng
摘要：	The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) just released its much-anticipated Infrastructure Report Card. The group has released one every four years since the 1980s. This year's report card is the first one in which the grade for every area of infrastructure either stayed the same or advanced slightly, and the first in which the overall grade is out of the "D" range, being given a C-. That said, 11 out of 17 categories of infrastructure still received some kind of "D". Ports received a B-, one of the highest grades of any category. The report notes that ports and port tenants plan to spend $163 billion between 2021 and 2025, up by more than $8 billion in the last four years. Investments are focused on capacity and efficiency enhancements as maximum vessel size has doubled over the last 15 years, and tonnage at the top 25 ports grew by 4.4 percent from 2015 to 2019. Federal funding has increased through multimodal competitive grant programs. Ports are at least keeping up with growing trade volumes. No doubt the publicity surrounding the expansion of the Panama Canal contributed to this investment.
出版年：	2021
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	134
期：	49