2.1.10 Trade Economist Urges U.S. Infrastructure Investment

February 1: Trade Economist Urges U.S. Infrastructure Investment from The Journal of Commcerce

  • The United States should expand its goods movement infrastructure with a sense of urgency because global trade is poised for a rebound, said a trade and transportation economist who addressed the Georgia Foreign Trade Conference Monday. "Now is the time to make the investment. Don't wait for two years when everything is fine," Walter Kemmsies, chief economist at Moffatt & Nichol Engineers, told the annual trade event in Sea Island, Ga.