President Joe Biden announced a $3 billion investment aimed at enhancing U.S. port infrastructure as part of his Inflation Reduction Act. This initiative, unveiled on Tuesday, is intended to
strengthen the nation’s ports and promote cleaner, more efficient operations.
The package includes $147 million allocated to the Maryland Port Administration, which operates the Port of Baltimore, according to a statement from the White House. This funding will focus on creating union jobs and upgrading port equipment to be more environmentally friendly, reducing emissions and promoting cleaner energy practices.
The announcement follows a three-day strike earlier this month across the U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast ports, where work stoppages briefly disrupted nearly half of the nation’s ocean shipping traffic. Photo by Eugene Zelenko, Wikimedia commons.
