MARAD says prompt responses important after lawmakers’ rebuke

Timely responses are important to the US Maritime Administration (MARAD), a spokesman told TradeWinds after lawmakers on a powerful committee blasted the agency’s lack of responsiveness to its queries and proposed trimming headquarters funding.

TradeWinds reported on Friday that the House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriations approved a bill that aims to cut headquarters funding for the upcoming 2024 fiscal year, which starts on 1 October of this year.