Shipping industry subject of new emissions reduction moves
4th December 2007
The country’s two busiest shipping ports are taking steps to also become more environmentally friendly, reports a recent article from GreenBiz.
The ports in Long Beach and Los Angeles, Calif., have begun implementing a new program to reduce the emissions and air pollution from the ships and trucks that make these two facilities among the world’s most-trafficked shipping hubs.
Beginning in September 2008, the two ports will prohibit the entrance of any trucks built before 1989, when pollution controls began coming installed in big rigs. The next phase of the project, which will go into effect in 2012, moves that manufacture date up to bar any trucks made prior to 2007 from operating in the ports.
