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Center for Ports and Waterways

A Lesson in Economics, Featuring Seaports and Your Stuff

October 19, 2018

By Jim Kruse The next time you’re trying to understand the global economy — the next time that hearing about tariffs and trade deficits makes you want to tune out — just remember that much of the study of economics boils down to just two things: seaports and your stuff. That’s because you use a […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Center for Ports and Waterways, economics, freight, Jim Kruse, Seaports

TTI’s Center for Ports and Waterways Helps Sponsors Navigate Economic Opportunity

June 1, 2018

The Texas Marine Transportation System includes 1,000 harbor channels; 25,000 miles of inland, intracoastal and coastal waterways; and 3,700 terminals handling passenger and cargo movements. And it connects with 152,000 miles of rail, 460,000 miles of pipelines, and 45,000 miles of interstate highways. With 11 deepwater seaports as international gateways and more than 1,000 miles […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 54, Number 2 Tagged With: Center for Ports and Waterways, education, freight, planning, Port operations

TTI’s Jim Kruse Featured in TR News

March 2, 2018

Jim Kruse, Texas A&M Transportation Institute research scientist and director of the Center for Ports & Waterways, has been profiled in the January/February 2018, edition of the National Academy of Sciences publication, TR News. In the profile, Kruse discusses his research involving waterborne freight transportation and its multimodal connections—work that covers a range of ever-changing […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Center for Ports and Waterways, Jim Kruse, TR News

Kruse Named to Maritime Transportation System Advisory Committee

July 7, 2016

Director of TTI’s Center for Ports and Waterways (CPW) Jim Kruse has been appointed to the Maritime Transportation System National Advisory Committee (MTSNAC). Kruse’s two-year term is effective July 1, 2016. He’s the first TTI employee to be appointed to the advisory committee. Kruse, who is also a TTI research scientist, became director of CPW […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Center for Ports and Waterways, Jim Kruse, Maritime Transportation System National Advisory Committee

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