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US ports win US$ 148M in grants to reduce pollution

News30 Apr 2024

The U.S. awards US$148 million in grants for port air quality improvements, focusing on electrification and reduction of truck emissions....

News21 Dec 2023

The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) is to receive US$73.77M from the federal government to support the development of its Louisiana Internat...

News7 Dec 2023

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has started work on a U$220M expenditure programme that will radically improve access to/from ...

News16 Sep 2014

Ports and rail freight projects feature heavily in latest round of TIGER Grants...

News1 Sep 2014

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has announced 72 awards totalling US$584M will be made under the sixth round of Transport Investme...

News22 Aug 2010

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

News1 Mar 2010

The recently-announced Transport Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants from the US Department of Transportation will provid...

News1 Feb 2010

Rail emerged as the big winner when the US Department of Transportation announced the successful projects in its Transport Investment Genera...

News1 Nov 2009

Ninety-five US ports have applied for US$3.32B in funding from the US$1.5B TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) Di...

News1 Jan 2009

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has published a final rule aimed at improving the crashworthiness of rail tank cars used to transp...

News1 Jun 2008

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is requesting proposals for “innovative approaches to ending traffic tie-ups at some of the nati...

News15 Dec 2002

If a location-reporting chassis could communicate with the container it is carrying and the container door seal, a major void in knowing whe...

News1 Sep 2002

The trucking industry is asking the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to postpone any additional hazardous materials security measures -...

News1 Jul 2002

Government proposals to amend US hazardous materials transport regulations in order to minimise security risks are built on shaky foundation...

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...