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1. Survey on Planned Infrastructure Investment

As AAPA continues to advocate for increased federal investment in seaport-related and connecting infrastructure, we make the case that U.S. port authorities, their tenants and their private sector partners are planning significant capital investments in their facilities. To ensure these investments are fully realized, we also advocate for significant federal support, particularly with regard to providing grants and funding connecting infrastructure. 

Nearly five years ago we circulated AAPA's 2016-2020 Port Planned Infrastructure Investment Survey, where we learned that U.S. ports, their tenants and private-sector partners collectively expected to spend about $31 billion per year through fiscal 2020 on capital projects. This information has been crucial in AAPA's outreach and advocacy efforts to raise awareness with media, influencers, policymakers and their staffs of the infrastructure investments being made by America's seaports to remain competitive.

We now need to update that survey to determine the port industry's projected capital expenditures for the next five fiscal years.

The information that you provide will be aggregated with all other responding ports so your individual port information will not be publicly identified, unless you give AAPA permission to do so. 

We’d greatly appreciate it if you, or the appropriate person on your staff, complete the seven brief questions by or before Dec. 13, 2019. Thanks for your help!

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* 1. What do you anticipate your port authority’s total capital expenditures will be for the next five years?
This should include:
- New construction and/or modernization/rehabilitation.
- Expenditures for piers, wharves, handling equipment, open and closed storage facilities.
- Road, rail, pipeline and utility improvements.
- Local expenditures for dredging (maintenance and improvements) both federal and connecting channels, berths, disposal sites and mitigation.
- Local share of all security-related capital expenditure projects (not operational costs).
- Other expenditures, including repair and maintenance, for any structures, land, and fixtures not related to cargo movement, such as maintenance or administrative facilities.

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* 2. What do you anticipate the total capital expenditures will be for the next five years for your port's tenants and private-sector partners? Please include in the total an estimate of all design, construction, infrastructure, equipment and technology expenditures. If you don't know the investment plans of your tenants and private-sector partners, please consider asking them for it with the understanding that individual responses will not be publicly identified in this survey unless you give AAPA permission.

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* 3. What types of major capital projects does your port authority expect to undertake in the next five years (with or without financing assistance)? For this survey, project types will be combined with those of other ports in your region and not listed individually by port, unless you give AAPA permission to do so.

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* 4. What types of major capital projects does your port expect its tenants and private-sector partners to undertake in the next five years (with or without financing assistance)? For this survey, project types will be combined with those of other ports in your region and not listed individually by port, unless you give AAPA permission to do so.

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* 5. For follow-up and regional geographic integration purposes, please identify yourself and your port. Please note that all information generated from this survey will be collected and summarized nationally and by geographic region. Neither the individual ports, their expected capital projects nor their private-sector partners’ projects will be identified individually, unless you give AAPA permission to do so.

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* 6. U.S. Port Region

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* 7. Do you give AAPA permission to publicly share the information you have provided in this survey?

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