The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has announced the recipients of funds under the second round of the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant program. TIGER grants will be awarded to 42 construction projects and 33 planning projects ranging from highways and bridges to transit, rail and ports.
Of the $600 million in available TIGER II grants, DOT received nearly 1,000 construction grant applications, totaling more than $19 billion. Seven of the 42 capital project funding requests selected for awards went to U.S. ports, totaling approximately $95 million, or about 17% of the total $556 million in capital grant funds available.
Among the winners is the Port of Providence, which will receive $10.5 million to help replace old, dilapidated diesel cranes with new electric, barge-based cranes and to help fund installation of wind turbines and solar panels for electric generation.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation
