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US offers USD 500 million for port upgrades

News12 Mar 2024

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration is offering $500 million in funding for port upgrades, as part of President ...

News22 Feb 2024

As part of an Executive Order aimed at strengthening maritime cyber-security, the Biden Administration plans to invest over US$20B over the ...

News28 Oct 2022

Most of the grants will go towards infrastructure, but there is direct funding for new port equipment...

News4 Mar 2022

A further $25 million has been made available for America’s Marine Highway Programme....

News23 Dec 2021

New grants totalling US$241M are coming from the Maritime Administration’s (MARAD) Port Infrastructure Development Programme....

News16 Jan 2021

The new M-10 Marine Highway (Jones Act) service gives the South Florida market ready shipping access to Puerto Rico, avoiding trunk road shi...

News19 Oct 2020

Ports benefit from US$220M in discretionary grant funding...

News20 Aug 2018

The US Maritime Administration (MARAD) has announced $4.8M in grants to six Marine Highway projects throughout the US....

News15 Apr 2017

Two additional sections of the Port Planning and Investment Toolkit manual to help US port authorities plan, invest in and implement critica...

News27 Jul 2014

Latest round-up of appointments known to WorldCargo News in the shipping, ports and related sectors...

News22 Aug 2010

The East Coast Marine Highway Initiative, a partnership between Port Canaveral, Florida, the Port of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and the Por...

News15 Mar 2002

The US Department of Transportation (US DoT) has allocated US$ 93.3 mill to support the new port security grants programme to be administere...