The feds are pitching in to help the Port of Baltimore cut down on its emissions with a $2.45 million grant to replace trucks and conventional diesel cargo-hauling equipment with clean diesel technology.
Some of the money coming from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will also go toward cutting leisurely emissions: Entertainment Cruises’ The Spirit of Baltimore, the multi-story dinner cruise ship often seen carrying party-goers in the Inner Harbor, will be outfitted with new, lower-emission engines.
The combined $6.3 million project—the Maryland Environmental Service said another $3.8 million is coming from matching funds from Entertainment Cruises and the Port of Baltimore—will replace 30 pieces of cargo-handling equipment, such as forklifts and terminal tractors, and 35 dray trucks, which move containers around the port.
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