Happy Tuesday!
Congratulations to the PCCA on their grant from the EPA’s Clean Ports Program!
Did anyone
hear the Port of Corpus Christi announced on October 29, 2024, they are
one of the awardees of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean
Ports Program. The Port of Corpus Christi Authority (PCCA)
released they may be getting up to $105 million from the Clean Ports Program. The $3 billion EPA’s Clean Ports Program is designed
to help ports reduce greenhouse gases with improvements to infrastructure and
zero-emission port equipment in addition the money may be used for planning for
reducing emissions and future weather conditions. The PCCA is expecting the zero-emission
equipment to help reduce annually approximately 186 tons of nitrous oxides,
reduce carbon dioxide by 650 tons, and reduce diesel fuel use by 800,000
gallons. PCCA and its local partners
are dedicated to reducing emissions and improving the lives and health of those
who live near and around the port. The award
will be approximately 70% of the budget for the PCCA and its local
partners (Bay Houston Towing Company, Signet Maritime Corporation, Suderman
& Young Towing Company, and Watco) for zero-emission equipment which may
include 3 battery electric tugboats, 8 battery electric forklifts, 1 battery electric
sweeper truck, 1 shore-power retrofit package for an existing dock, modernizing
of 2 locomotives to battery electric, and 7 charging stations. The award will help train employees with use and care of the new equipment, help with local outreach programs, and help with making a
database for its emission inventories for before and after implementation. We
would like to wish them luck in reducing their emissions! If you would like to read more of the Port
of Corpus Christi’s announcement, please click the link: Port of Corpus Christi Selected by EPA as Clean Ports Program Grant Recipient - Port of Corpus Christi.
If you would
like help in looking into how to transport your product efficiently and with
less of a carbon footprint, contact us via the email in the Blog and check out
our ESC's website!
We hope you have a wonderful evening and a great week!