Why aren’t we doing more domestic coastal shipping?

Perhaps the stakes were too high to allow for a more relaxed approach. Every day that section of I-95 remained closed, a critical node in the nation’s supply chain would remain disrupted. Nearly 150,000 cars, including 14,000 commercial trucks, passed through this section of I-95 every day. Those trucks carried cargo worth $100 billion annually. An extended disruption to this flow of goods would have caused severe congestion, delays, and price inflation throughout the region. While the rapid repair of the bridge demonstrates what our institutions are capable of if they could just get aligned, the urgency and panic around this road collapse sheds light on how dependent we are on trucking. Along with the heavy traffic that it carries, I-95 has another curious characteristic. It runs parallel to the entire Atlantic coastline, from northern Maine to Miami, passing through major metropolitan centers like Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. along the way. <a href="https://ndixit918.medium.com/why-arent-we-doing-more-domestic-coastal-shipping-2f7b39cc0f4a">Read More</a>