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August 4, 2009

Tacoma port gets $1.5M to cut emissions

TACOMA — The Port of Tacoma has received nearly $1.5 million from the federal stimulus through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce diesel and greenhouse gas emissions by retrofitting ships and adding electrical plug-ins at the Totem Ocean Trailer Express terminal.

TOTE, a private shipping company that serves the Alaska trade, has already spent almost $900,000 to retrofit two ships to accommodate shore power connections, which allow ships to turn off their engines at the terminal. TOTE said it will contribute another $283,000 to complete the project. TOTE ships will become the first to plug in at Port of Tacoma berths.

The project also will install a shore-side connection system and power at the TOTE terminal. This plug-in system will eliminate diesel particulate matter and greenhouse gas emissions for ships docked there.

TOTE ships, which call twice a week in Tacoma, are expected to plug into the system by fall of 2010.




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