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Clean Air Plan * USA - Identifies Goals For Seattle, Tacoma Trucks
Long Beach,CA,USA -The Cunningham Report -11 Nov 2007: -- The latest version of the Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy for the ports of Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver, B.C. - released Thursday evening - adds some detail to how much the ports plan to clean up truck pollution and how they expect to accomplish it... Of the three ports, Vancouver is the only one that has licensed port drayage trucks and imposed strict environmental standards on them. The plan calls for Seattle and Tacoma to work with stakeholders to implement similar programs... It also identifies short-term and long-term goals. By 2010, Seattle and Tacoma aim to meet an equivalent particulate emission level of a 1994 or newer truck either by bringing in new trucks or retrofitting older ones... By 2015, the goal is to have 80 percent of the trucks meet a 2007 emissions standard. To get there, the ports plan to implement a business model similar to the Port of Vancouver's, support redesign of drayage trucks, look at the potential of a virtual container yard and regional chassis pool, and evaluate the possibility of dedicated terminal-to-railyard routes...
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