Committee on the Marine Transportation System

The Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS) is a Federal inter-departmental committee which is chaired by the Secretary of Transportation and the purpose of which is to create a partnership of Federal Departments and agencies with responsibility for the Marine Transportation System (MTS). The CMTS is directed to ensure the development and implementation of national MTS policies consistent with national needs and report to the President its views and recommendations for improving the MTS. The authority to establish this Committee derives from a directive in the U.S. Ocean Action Plan, issued December 17, 2004, “Supporting Marine Transportation.”