TALLAHASSEE – Federal transportation officials have approved a lot more than $10 million for jobs to improve air good quality at ports in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Jacksonville.
The money for the awards arrives from a new software integrated in the 2021 Infrastructure Expenditure and Jobs Act, according to a push launch from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Freeway Administration.
The grants consist of $8.3 million to replace diesel-powered trucks with electrical utility tractor rigs and put in superior-electricity DC rapid chargers at the Port Everglades Terminal in Fort Lauderdale and the Talleyrand Marine Terminal in Jacksonville. The modify is envisioned to minimize truck emissions, queueing, idling, and targeted visitors congestion.
An additional $1.8 million is likely to a new terminal functioning method at the Seaboard Marine Port in Miami. The procedure is envisioned to reduce truck idling time at the gates by at least 10 minutes.
“The new method will increase the effectiveness of trucks finding up or dropping off containers in the garden, lessening their working time, the quantity of carbon emissions, air pollutants, and noise related with idling vans and tools,” according to the release.
The funding is section of $148 million in grants aimed at minimizing truck emissions likely to 16 port projects in 11 states and Puerto Rico.