Grants to invest in the modernization and expansion of U.S. ports to remove bottlenecks, ensure long-term competitiveness, resilience, and sustainability while reducing impacts to the environment and neighboring communities.

Projects that improve the resiliency of ports to address sea-level rise, flooding, extreme weather events, earthquakes, and tsunami inundation, as well as projects that reduce or eliminate port-related criteria pollutant or greenhouse gas emissions, including projects for—1. Port electrification or electrification master planning; 2. Harbor craft or equipment replacements/retrofits;3. Development of port or terminal micro-grids; 4. Providing idling reduction infrastructure; 5. Purchase of cargo handling equipment and related infrastructure;6. Worker training to support electrification technology;7. Installation of port bunkering facilities from ocean- going vessels for fuels;8. Electric vehicle charge or hydrogen refueling infrastructure for drayage, and medium or heavy-duty trucks and loco- motives that service the port and related grid upgrades;9. Other related to port activities including charging infrastructure, electric rubber-tired gantry cranes, and anti-idling technologies;10. As well as projects under 46 U.S.C. 50302 which states “Funds for the Port Infrastructure Development Program are awarded on a competitive basis to projects that improve the safety, efficiency, or reliability of the movement of goods into, out of, around, or within a port.”

February 2022 The Department of Transportation expects to post a Notice of Funding Opportunity in February 2022.