Book now to access the full GreenPort Congress America experience
As well as hearing from industry leading speakers, GreenPort Congress America delegates will have the opportunity to widen their environmental and sustainability networks.
Attendees can network with their peers at the welcome reception, gala dinner and during one of five port tours. But tour spaces are limited, with many filling up fast. Booking your GreenPort Congress America place now will allow you to secure your preferred excursion option, one of the many ways to maximise your attendance at GreenPort Congress America.
The tour options are:
1.Landside Port Tour – 3 hours
A motorized tour of both the Dundalk Marine Terminal and the Seagrit Marine Terminal. The tour will highlight DMT’s position as the top U.S. RO/RO port and showcase SMT’s state-of-the-art super post-Panamax cranes.
2.Waterside Port Tour – 3 hours
A tour of the Baltimore Inner Harbor and the port facilities from the waterside aboard the MDOT MPA’s touring boat, Mary Lynn.
3.Masonville Cove & Educational Center – 3 hours
Visit the Masonville Cove dredged material containment facility and the Environmental Education Center and gain an appreciation for the ports that have resulted in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service naming Masonville as its Urban Wildlife Refuge partner.
4.“Poplar Island” – 8 hours
Travel from Baltimore down to the Chesapeake Bay and enjoy a boat ride to tour Poplar Island which has become a national model of environmental restoration. Through various natural processes, Poplar Island has reduced in size from 1993, but since 2001 has received clean dredge material to help expand the island once again.
5.“Trash-Eaters in the Harbor!” – 2 hours
See presentations and demo of innovative trash-eating technologies that clean the debris out of our waterways including Mr. Trash Wheel and other technologies from Maryland and from Rotterdam (Baltimore’s sister city in the Netherlands). This event will take place at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor by the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront hotel (the GreenPort Congress’s hotel).
Book online here to secure your tour place, maximising the opportunities to connect with a world class selection of attendees, seeing first-hand how one of North America’s leading ports has implemented its environmental techniques and strategies.
To find out more information about GreenPort Congress America visit http://www.greenport.com/congressamerica or call +44 1329 825335.
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