The long-term certainty of federal transportation investment will give the industry a much clearer view of our future market opportunities.
Although PPPs are not new to America, they remain underused as an engine for transportation infrastructure investment.
However, how many serious investors really believe the economy can rebound without a boost in government-funded investment in transportation, communications and education infrastructure?
The grand public transportation schemes had fallen quiet, investment had scampered away and the general mood was just, well, not very Thai.
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The reality is simply that we are decades away from EVs becoming inseparable from the transportation fleet due to the demand and infrastructure investment.
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China's involvement on the continent has increased dramatically over the past several years, fueled by Africa's growing demand for cheap Chinese products and the need for greater infrastructure investment in the African energy and transportation sectors.
Janjigian notes that investment risks include rising raw material and transportation costs, but he also points out that recent price increases should keep earnings strong.
The future of a technology that converts dirty cheap coal into clean natural gas for transportation fuel was underscored last night by a Chinese investment in Synthesis Energy Systems(SYMX, NASDAQ), a small Houston company that holds a valuable license for this transforming technology.
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Officials from the council (CEA) and the White House have kept mum about the report's findings, but we do know it will address the following issues: productivity growth, pro-growth tax policy, the fiscal challenges facing Medicare, catastrophe risk insurance, energy and infrastructure in the transportation sector, currency markets, international trade and investment and immigration.
Ladies and gentlemen, this single investment is not going to solve all our transportation issues overnight.
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However, you do not recognise the efforts of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to provide the necessary and deserved investment for our nation's aviation system.
With only a few years needed to recover capital costs on investment, the competitive landscape changes and rail transportation rates could be reduced after pipelines enter the market to keep railroads competitive and still profitable.
Maybe they should listen to investors and officials who spoke at a recent media briefing on strong transportation policies and how they can spur innovation and drive investment to make our automakers and their suppliers more competitive.
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After meeting with some of his Cabinet secretaries, along with a bipartisan group of former secretaries of Transportation, mayors and governors who have come together in support of infrastructure investment, the President spoke both on the depth of the problem and value of the solution.
In addition to these traditional areas of investment, creative market solutions are also emerging, such as rail transportation of crude oil.
The railroads retort that despite record traffic and profits, their return on investment since 2000 has been only 8%, which according to the Surface Transportation Board, another federal regulator, barely covers the cost of capital.
We saw the massive transformations of a society move to the suburbs, the exodus of money and investment in the inner city, the creation of jobs, the lack of transportation in the suburbs, and we didn't account for the changing demographics in the city.
Because we know we can't build our economic future on the transportation and information networks of the past, we are remaking the American landscape with the largest new investment in our nation's infrastructure since Eisenhower built an interstate highway system in the 1950s.
"Passenger rail service, especially services at higher and high speeds, will require new safety rules, constant public capital investment and operating subsidies, and balance with freight rail service and the rest of the national transportation system -- and currently only some of these elements are in place, " according to a GAO report.
For example, in the sector of electric transportation, foreign investments are not welcome.10 According to some statistics and reports, the percentage of foreign direct investment in Argentina is one of the lowest in Latin America.11 There is no doubt that Kirchnerb s policies are mainly responsible for this situation.
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