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原文传递 Kentucky Freight Study Designed To Drive Port Growth, Investment

题名：	Kentucky Freight Study Designed To Drive Port Growth, Investment
正文语种：	eng
作者：	SHELLEY BYRNE
摘要：	With coal shipments expected to decrease, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is studying how the state's public riv-erports can capture new markets and boost the state's economic development. Those efforts were detailed in an Inland Marine Expo session titled "Kentucky Riverports: Developments and Its Growing Importance to the Inland Marine Industry." IMX 2021 was held March 24-26 at the Dome at Americas Center in St. Louis, Mo. It is presented annually by The Waterways Journal. Ken Eriksen, senior vice president and head of client advisory and development, energy and transportation and policy for IHS Markit, moderated the panel discussion, with virtual panelists Jeremy Edgeworth, Chandler Duncan and Paul Bingham joining in to discuss the ongoing Kentucky Riverports, Highway and Rail Freight Study. Edgeworth, freight, rail and waterways coordinator at the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet s Division of Planning, said the state had last studied its riverports in 2008, collecting an in-depth inventory of the public riverport authorities and their infrastructure and providing some general policy recommendations. Much of that information was dated, and it wasn't sufficient for economic development needs, he said. In a January 2018 speech, the governor at the time not only touted Kentucky's access to the inland waterway system but also challenged those in attendance to better utilize it to spur economic growth and development. The Kentucky Association of Riverports took up the challenge, drafting the framework for a new study and approaching the leadership of the transportation and economic development cabinets, which agreed the study was needed.
出版年：	2021
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	135
期：	10