Trump kills TIGER

Responding to report findings, AAPA has issued several recommendations for policymakers and relevant stakeholders to help create a level playing field and expedite decarbonization activities for ports.

MARAD, the US Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration unit, and the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) are to survey the country’s port authorities and terminal operators in a bid to more accurately identify their cargo handling requirements, particularly for electric machines, over the next five-to-10 years.

Following months of negotiation over Congressional Democrats’ agenda, the Senate has passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the budget reconciliation bill that includes US$3B over five years to establish a new grant scheme to install electrified equipment and reduce emission at US ports

Liebherr Group has orders for two intermodal RMGs and has just placed another LPS 420 crane in the Russian market; four Vityaz double-lever cranes from SMM SevMorMontazh have recently been delivered to the same customer

The American Association of Port Authorities has reported that port-related projects in Baltimore, Cleveland and Miami will together receive over US$142M, or 15.7%, of the total of US$900M in grant funding for 20 projects selected by US DoT under its Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects Program, or INFRA

APM Terminals in Los Angeles claims a container exchange record on a North American call.