Report on Session Guidelines

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Report on Session Guidelines

• Bruce Lambert
• Executive Director
• Institute for Trade and Transportation Studies

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General Response

• Positive step foreword in process
• Seen as good well creation for state if dialogue
  continues
• Business climate is changing-timing is critical
• LA is catching up to neighbors but opportunities
  exist

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New pressures

• Globalization
• Panama Canal will change demands
• Firms expanding overseas with limited funds

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Economic Development

• State needs to collaboratively develop intra
  regional competition with locals and state
• Railroad access is considered too late in
  development phase
• Corridor protection

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Maritime Activities

• Too many ports regarding marketing, promotion,
  projects
• Workforce development deckhands, etc.
• Inland navigation expansion state as advocate
  for funding
• Tax equity between barges and rail
• Pilot fees is different associations
• Dock and maritime union and labor
• Inner Harbor Lock needs State support

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Regional and National Development

• I-20 as automobile highway
• New Orleans Rail Gateway Modernization
• Access to Markets is diverse

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Railroad Issues

• Railroad access into the Port of Lake Charles
• Intermodal ramp availability
• Interchange agreements along the river
• Captive shippers dual rail
• Need rail funds for other modes like for airports
  
• Standardization of railroad car weights on
  railway bed

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Highway

• Congestion in Baton Rouge, New Orleans
• Rail Grade Crossings
• Truck permitting standardization
• Complete I-49 and I-69
• Improve 371, 171, 28

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Institutional Needs

• Training logistics and support professional staff
• Coalition for Strategic Planning for State
• State needs to change perception
• Ombudsmen function

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Next Steps

• List of Topics for Review (internal)
• Draft for Internal Review (internal)
• Release Strategic Plan (external)
• Freight Summit (external)