{"id":784,"date":"2019-11-15T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2019\/11\/15\/sustainability-top-priority-for-us-port\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:12:51","slug":"sustainability-top-priority-for-us-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2019\/11\/15\/sustainability-top-priority-for-us-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability top priority for US port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over US$330m is provided to support sustainability and resiliency efforts that reduce the port\u2019s environmental impact and enhance the resiliency of its facilities.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve the port\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, US$10m in capital spending is provided for electric vehicle charging infrastructure projects across the facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Port authority executive director, Rick Cotton, said: \u201cThis proposed budget will support rapid, demonstrable progress to achieve our priority objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another US$11m in operating expense funds are provided to convert the port\u2019s light duty and airport shuttle bus fleet to all-electric, implement an electric cargo handling equipment demonstration project at Port Elizabeth, further efforts with the port\u2019s truck replacement programme and support the Ocean-Going Clean Vessel Incentive programme.<\/p>\n<p>To reduce port authority energy consumption, four large energy efficiency projects are underway across all facilities, with nine additional projects under development.<\/p>\n<p>Also included in the budget is US$787m to provide world-class safety and security at port authority facilities, to upgrade cybersecurity initiatives and to enhance emergency operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainability is a top priority in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey\u2019s proposed US$3.4bn 2020 operating expense budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}