A sticky solution

Each of the ports, along with their customers and tenants, continues to work collaboratively with air and environmental regulatory agencies to reduce emissions. These include such initiatives as using ultra-low sulfur diesel, biodiesel and other cleaner-burning fuels in cargo-handling equipment; sulphur distillate fuels for vessels on berth; adding green design environmental features to ships including diesel-electric motors that save up to 30% in fuel and significantly reduce emissions; installing anti-idling devices on rail-switching locomotives and setting targets to turn over older, less-efficient road truck engines – the Clean Truck Programme (CTP).

As part of CTP stickers have now been made available for all trucks meeting the Port of Tacoma’s standards. More than 500 stickers have been distributed already to trucks that pre-registered under the Port’s Best Management Practices list. With the launch of the Sticker Programme, trucking companies have expressed renewed interest in the Best Management Practice List to promote their businesses to shippers and cargo owners.