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Dozens of port projects waiting for funding

(The Center Square) — Louisiana’s Office of Multimodal Commerce says billions of dollars in port projects are stuck in line for funding, with requests piling up as far back as 2019.

Julia Fisher-Cormier, the office’s director, said the program’s design allowed applications to build up without caps on approvals, even when annual funding was a fraction of the demand.

“It started out with very little f…

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