“We must return to the sea to get freight moving. The now underused deep blue highway could provide resilience and improve the
environmental performance of the nation's transportation system.
Coastal shipping could complement, not compete with, trucking
and rail. This is especially critical given current pressures on the
trucking industry, such as rising fuel costs and labor shortages. In
our research we have found a growing chorus from numerous and
diverse constituencies eager to move freight off the land and onto
the water”(Borgerson et al., 2008)