The task of the Transportation Growth Initiative in Marine Transportation is to provide leadership in innovation that address current challenges and make the Nation’s transportation sector globally competitive. This will be done through research, knowledge sharing and networking, conducted within a setting that is objective with inclusive stakeholder collaboration and showing best practices. This segment highlights marine transportation issues, reports, updates and includes links to selected marine transportation regulatory and research-related activities taking place at the federal and state levels, and within the academic and international transportation communities. This page also provides links to TGI marine transportation-related programs, activities and networks.