On April 30, 2025, NITL joined with 30 other groups recommending various provisions to enhance highway safety, address funding concerns, and permitting reform in the upcoming surface transportation reauthorization bill.
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On April 30, 2025, NITL submitted a letter to the House T&I Committee outlining its members rail recommendations to be included in the surface transportation reauthorization bill. These include clarifying the Common Carrier Obligation, revoking the class of exempt commodities, and establishing a rail system performance data program.
NITL is part of the Interested Parties for Hazardous Materials Transportation (Interested Parties)[1], we are responding to your April 8, 2025, request for input on proposals and issues related to the transportation of hazardous materials that we recommend be included in legislation to reauthorize surface transportation law.
Our coalition has worked with Congress and staff on hazardous materials transportation legislation since 1990. This experience gives us a perspective and expertise about the evolution of current law and areas that we believe merit improvement. Federal Hazardous Materials Transportation Law (FHMTL) expires next year, and we welcome your willingness to give attention to reauthorizing this law.
Meet Chris Hulse, a rising force in the transportation and logistics sector and a member of the inaugural class of the National Industrial Transportation League’s (NITL) Emerging Leaders Program. Chris is currently Eastern and Southeastern Regional Transportation Manager for Packaging Corporation of America.
We support scrutiny of China’s efforts to dominate the maritime industry. However, USTR’s proposed actions will not deter China’s broader maritime ambitions and will instead directly hurt American businesses and consumers. Specifically, USTR’s proposed fees will increase shipping costs, container and non-containerized, by at least 25% ($600-$800 or more), adding approximately $30 billion in annual costs on U.S. businesses and farmers.
NITL fully supports the ultimate objective of the USTR to counteract China with respect to the unreasonable and restrictive practices. However, the actions proposed by the USTR will almost certainly lead to adverse impacts for U.S. businesses, including a dramatic increase in shipping rates (for both bulk and container carriers), reduced vessel capacity, consolidated port calls, congestion, and intermodal and supply chain disruptions. I. NITL Identity and Interest.
Washington, DC – March 2025 –The introduction of an Ocean Freight Shipper Bill of Rights presents a promising step forward in strengthening the relationship between shippers and carriers, ensuring both parties benefit from clearer, more equitable practices. NITL Ocean Chair Siva Narayanan, Syensqo, sees such a Bill as a vital opportunity to address key issues facing the freight shipping industry, fostering a stronger, more efficient shipping environment. The proposed Ocean Shipper Bill of Rights offers multiple benefits that stand to improve the entire shipping process: Enhanced Transparency: Shipping rates, terms, and conditions are often unclear, misleading, or even ambiguous. An Ocean Shipping Bill of Rights (OSBOR) will guarantee processes.
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Click here to read the Ocean Freight Shipper Bill of Rights.
On behalf of the Interested Parties for Hazardous Materials Transportation (“Interested Parties”)[1], we are writing today in support of efforts to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of government while also ensuring the continued safe and efficient transportation of hazardous materials. In particular, we seek to highlight the critical functions of personnel who oversee the safe transport of hazardous materials within the Department of Transportation, particularly at the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA).
The National Industrial Transportation League (NITL) – who has been the voice of the shipper since 1907, and whose members in 2023 generated roughly $878 billion in gross revenues while spending billions of dollars on shipping freight annually – respectfully requests that you designate Patrick J. Fuchs (R) of Wisconsin, the longest-serving Member of the current Surface Transportation Board (STB or Board), as its Chair, and requests that this designation be done as expeditiously as possible.
NITL is pleased to sign onto the letter to Mr. Daggett and Mr. Adam along with 267 federal, state and local trade associations representing American manufacturers, farmers and agribusinesses, wholesalers, retailers, restaurants, importers, exporters, distributors, transportation and logistics providers, and other supply chain stakeholders, we are writing to urge both the International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance to return to the bargaining table with the goal of reaching a new labor contract before the new Jan. 15 contract expiration date. It is imperative for the parties to resume negotiations and remain at the table until a new contract is reached.
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