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Legislation * USA - Forces US military cargo from the air
The legislation is unlikely to trigger a wholesale shift of military shipments from air to road
Washington,DC,USA -Air Cargo News.net (Ashford,England,UK) -24 Oct 2008: -- The US president has signed a law that drags the nation’s air force into the 21st Century. The 2009 Defense Authorisation Act, calls on the US Department of Defense to use a mode-neutral approach instead of insisting on airfreight for transportation within the contiguous 48 states... The legislation is the result of a bitter dispute over conflicting regulations governing the transportation of military cargo. On one side, the ‘Defense Transportation Regulations’ requires best practices based on a mode-neutral approach. This is at odds with the stance adopted by the USAF Air Mobility Command, which issued its own set of rules a few years ago called ‘AMC FreightRules Publication Number 5’ (AFTRP 5). The latter state that shipments tendered to air carriers for service must move all or in part via air – unless extreme conditions like a storm, warrant the use of surface transportation instead... Brandon Fried, executive director of the Airforwarders Association, called the legislation “common sense at last” and “a victory for taxpayers as well as the forwarding industry”. In many cases transportation by truck is not only more economical but sometimes also faster, he added. “Many military bases are in remote locations and it’s faster to truck from there than to get the cargo to the nearest airport and fly it,” he said...
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