Grant aids Tacoma Port, TOTE.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: TRANSPORTATION

The Port of Tacoma received a $1.5 million grant to help Totem Ocean Trailer Express Inc. reduce greenhouse gas emissions of two Orca Class vessels by about 90 percent while at the Tacoma terminal. Port officials will add 600,000-volt electrical maritime power at the terminal to allow the ships to plug into shore power and turn off engines while docked. The change will avoid at-berth diesel idling. Each vessel calls on the Tacoma port once a week for about 12 hours. TOTE's vessels will be the first in the Port of Tacoma to use shore-side power while they are docked. The...