Unique touring opportunity of the Port of Baltimore – limited spaces!
Book now to secure your preferred tour – your delegate place gives you access to one of 5 tours, an unmissable opportunity for attendees at the inaugural GreenPort Congress America.
Spaces are limited, with only 116 spaces across the tours booking your place at GreenPort Congress America is essential to secure your tour of choice. The 5 excursions are listed below and can be booked at the same time as your delegate place.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
“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).
To book your place visit http://www.greenport.com/congressamerica or call +44 1329 825335.
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