{"id":29408,"date":"2022-03-04T09:31:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T06:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/new-funding-made-available-for-americas-marine-highway-program\/29408\/"},"modified":"2022-03-04T09:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T06:31:55","slug":"new-funding-made-available-for-americas-marine-highway-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/new-funding-made-available-for-americas-marine-highway-program\/29408\/","title":{"rendered":"New funding made available for America\u2019s Marine Highway Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>The US Department of Transportation\u2019s Maritime Administration (MARAD) announced this week the availability of $25m in funding for the America\u2019s Marine Highway Program (AMHP), which supports the increased use of US navigable waterways to relieve landside congestion, provide new and efficient transportation options, and increase the productivity of the surface transportation system.<\/p>\n<p>The new funding is the largest single appropriation of funding ever provided to the AMHP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis historic funding for the Marine Highways program will expand waterborne transportation options while helping project sponsors increase energy conservation, improve safety, reduce landside infrastructure costs, and reduce travel delays caused by congestion,\u201d said Acting Maritime Administrator Lucinda Lessley.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>Applications for grants are due on April 29.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n\t    <!-- \/91333190\/SPLASH247_*_Splash247_Article_*_Strip_Slot_*_2 --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\">\n<script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta post-bottom-tags post-tags-modern\">\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta-title\">\n<span class=\"tie-icon-tags\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Tags<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/united-states\/\" rel=\"tag\">United States<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Transportation\u2019s Maritime Administration (MARAD) announced this week the availability of $25m in funding for the America\u2019s Marine Highway Program (AMHP), which supports the increased use of US navigable waterways to relieve landside congestion, provide new and efficient transportation options, and increase the productivity of the surface transportation system. The new funding &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-port-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/29409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}