{"id":4583,"date":"2023-07-06T14:27:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T19:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2023-07-24T14:31:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:31:51","slug":"ports-awarded-40-million-for-infrastructure-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/06\/ports-awarded-40-million-for-infrastructure-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Ports Awarded $40 Million for Infrastructure Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aapw01.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/07\/GovRel_thumb.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"107\" src=\"https:\/\/aapw01.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/07\/GovRel_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4584\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ports received nearly $40 million in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation in the FY 2023 round of funding through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportation.gov\/RAISEgrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program<\/a>. These grants, totaling more than $2.2 billion, aim to invest in infrastructure that promotes safety, equity, and strong critical supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PortMiami, for example, received $5 million to complete portions of its Master Plan to continue its Net Zero Program, and the Puerto Rico Ports Authority received $3 million to fund a feasibility study and other preparatory initiatives to improve Avenue C, a critical roadway link and the only connection to the port&#8217;s eastern wharves. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportation.gov\/sites\/dot.gov\/files\/2023-06\/RAISE%202023%20Fact%20Sheets.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This year&#8217;s awards<\/a> are split equally between rural and urban areas and almost three-quarters of the grants were awarded to projects in impoverished or historically disadvantaged areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ports received nearly $40 million in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation in the FY 2023 round of funding through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":4585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,441,448],"tags":[721,1225,986,1107],"class_list":["post-4583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-insights-blog","category-infrastructure","category-key-topics","tag-department-of-transportation-infrastructure-grants","tag-infrastructure","tag-raise-grant","tag-sustainable-infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}