{"id":5396,"date":"2026-06-11T15:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:27:13","slug":"apply-for-dots-combating-human-trafficking-in-transportation-impact-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/apply-for-dots-combating-human-trafficking-in-transportation-impact-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply for DOT&#8217;s Combating Human\u00a0Trafficking in Transportation Impact Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Department of Transportation (DOT) is currently seeking entrants for its annual&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportation.gov\/stop-human-trafficking\/impact-award\">Combating Human Trafficking in Transportation Impact Awards<\/a>, which seek to incentivize transportation stakeholders to develop impactful counter-trafficking strategies. The DOT is offering three cash prizes of up to $100,000 for first place, up to $50,000 for second place, and up to $25,000 for third place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ports and maritime partners interested should submit their applications to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:trafficking@dot.gov\">trafficking@dot.gov<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2026\/04\/22\/2026-07846\/solicitation-of-proposals-for-annual-combating-human-trafficking-in-transportation-impact-awards\">Federal Register Notice<\/a>&nbsp;by June 22, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Transportation (DOT) is currently seeking entrants for its annual&nbsp;Combating Human Trafficking in Transportation Impact Awards, which seek to incentivize transportation stakeholders to develop impactful counter-trafficking strategies. The DOT is offering three cash prizes of up to $100,000 for first place, up to $50,000 for second place, and up to $25,000 for third &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":4402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[1278],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-insights-blog","tag-department-of-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}