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Transportation Group Hopes Annual List Guides Infrastructure Decisions

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highway transportation system,” the report says. Ensuring the safe and efficient movement of goods should be a national priority, and this report draws attention to the places where our highway network needs improvement in order to meet that goal,” said American Trucking Associations President Chris Spear in a statement.

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Labor Tensions Cause Port Headaches for Retail, Manufacturing Industries

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PMA says the union has deliberately slowed work at the ports to gain leverage in negotiations; ILWU denies that claim and suggests that the bottlenecks have been caused by recent changes in shipping procedures implemented by the companies, Reuters reports. In 2002, after a 10-day work stoppage at the ports, President George W.