More recently, the ports of Seattle


and Tacoma announced that the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has now been signed into law, which contains several major policies that will benefit innovation, decarbonisation and habitat programmes at both ports and throughout the Puget Sound. The legislation included the annual Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), the US Maritime Administration (Marad) Reauthorization Act, and the US Coast Guard Reauthorization Act. “The Port of Seattle and the Northwest


Seaport Alliance [the marine cargo operating partnership of the Port of Seattle and Port of Tacoma] thank our state’s Congressional delegation for incorporating provisions in the NDAA that balance the needs of commerce, communities, climate and killer whales,” says Fred Felleman, commissioner, Port of Seattle. “These provisions include critical funding and collaboration to help ports decarbonise our operations with electricity and alternative fuels that reduce our impacts on the climate and near-port communities. It also increases the ability for ports to work with the coast guard and whale-watching networks to reduce conflicts between ships and vulnerable whale species.”


PSIn Florida, the Port of Jacksonville (JaxPort) is moving increasingly toward electrification of the large cranes that unload cargo from ships, as well as the smaller cranes that shuttle containers around terminal yards.


P The Port of Jacksonville’s Nick Primrose.


Provisions that will benefit the region include: a pilot programme on the use of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), requiring two military bases to develop a plan for implementing SAFs; and expansion of Marad’s Port Infrastructure Development Program to include “shore power at a port that services passenger vessels”, which will allow for federal funding to support the port’s investment in providing shore power at Pier 66. Once completed, all three of the Port of Seattle’s cruise berths will be shore power capable. A US Center for Maritime Innovation to support the study, research, development, assessment and deployment of emerging


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