THE NEW YORKER

Funding without a strategy

The interactions of politics and port commerce make for some strange stories: in early September, the US Department of Transportation awarded more than $100m in grants to a dozen recipients in port related projects – with more than half for infrastructure specifically at the ports.

Houston was one of few US ports to benefit from TIGER funding. Credit: Roy Luck

The interactions of politics and port commerce make for some strange stories: in early September, the US Department of Transportation awarded more than $100m in grants to a dozen recipients in port related projects - with more than half for infrastructure specifically at the ports.

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