

Helping reduce port related emissions and achieve sustainability goals, advanced diesel technologies are increasingly deployed across the large spectrum of vehicles, vessels and equipment and are playing a daily role in improving air quality in regions surrounding America’s ports. Environmental Protection Agency 39 of the 360 commercial ports in the US are located in areas of non-attainment for one or more criteria pollutants. Over 95% of the cargo entering the United States arrives by ship and over 360 commercial ports nationwide help to transfer these goods to their destinations in communities across the nation.Īccording to the U.S. Three hundred and sixty commercial sea and river ports in the US move 2 billion tons of import and export cargo each year while more than 16.9 million cruise passengers also move through a port facility. Diesel fuel and engines are the predominant technology used to power these vehicles and equipment due to their fuel efficiency, power, performance, durability and reliability.įrom 2016-2021, 12.5 billion tons worth of goods were sent abroad across the globe in maritime trade. Moving this trade through sea and river ports requires many trucks, trains, ships, cargo handling equipment, barges, and marine workboats.

Our global economy depends on the efficient and continuous movement of goods supplies of raw materials and delivery of manufactured goods to market. Diesel engines power the trucks, trains, marine workboats, inland towboats and barges - the tools of global commerce on the water and on land, serving the nation’s ports.
