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May 22, 2019
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AF&PA Advocates for Service, Rate and Process Reforms at Surface Transportation Board Hearing

CONTACT: Lindsay Murphy/Barbara Riley
(202) 463-2436, comm@afandpa.org

 

WASHINGTON – American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Donna Harman urged the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to work toward service, rate and dispute improvements in a statement regarding the board’s May 22, 23 oversight hearing. AF&PA Director, Government and Industry Affairs Julie Landry’s submitted testimony for the official record for the Oversight Hearing on Demurrage and Accesorial Charges held at the International Trade Commission.

“When it comes to shipping forest and wood products across the nation’s rail system, our manufacturers deserve reliable service at a reasonable rate and a fair process to resolve supply chain disruptions and billing disputes. We thank the Surface Transportation Board for hearing our voice on issues that are so central to effectively moving raw materials to mills and finished products to markets. We look forward to working with the board to deliver service, rate and dispute improvements to support our industry’s ability to compete, grow the economy and create American manufacturing jobs.”

 

 

The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) serves to advance public policies that foster economic growth, job creation and global competitiveness for a vital sector that makes the essential paper and packaging products Americans use every day. The U.S. forest products industry employs more than 925,000 people, largely in rural America, and is among the top 10 manufacturing sector employers in 44 states. Our industry accounts for approximately 4.7% of the total U.S. manufacturing GDP, manufacturing more than $435 billion in products annually. AF&PA member companies are significant producers and users of renewable biomass energy and are committed to making sustainable products for a sustainable future through the industry’s decades-long initiative — Better Practices, Better Planet 2030. 

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