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Issue 8 2017 - FBJNA
The Evergreen Ever Laden calls the Port of Wilmington, NC, on Sept. 10, 2016. At 8,500 TEUs, the vessel is the largest ship to at the port. (NC Ports photo)
///EAST COAST PORTS
Positioning Forward East Coast seaports face the realities of future commerce needs
The “project friendly” port in the Mid-Atlantic!
By Peter Buxbaum
Port infrastructure improvements are oſten years if not decades in the planning, but when they’re completed the results can be immediate. A case in point: the raising of the Bayonne Bridge at the port of New York and New Jersey. As ships grew in volume over
the years the air draſt under the Bayonne Bridge, where vessels transit on their way to the Newark Bay ports of Newark and Elizabeth, became problematic as masts and antennas began scraping the bottom of the bridge. The $1.6 billion project was completed on June 8, 2017 and the port immediately
“The second span for vehicular
traffic [on the Bayonne Bridge] is still underway.”
-- Bethann Rooney, PANYNJ
began seeing vessels of 10,000 TEU and up calling on the port. Before the raising, the largest ship to sail under the bridge was 9,400 TEU. It’s like that all up and down the
east coast. The other ports don’t have a Bayonne Bridge to contend with, but they were all confronted years ago by two facts: that the ships the container carriers were
completed last year—allowing big ships from Asia to reach east coast ports. That’s why east coast ports have been investing billions deepening and widening their channels, updating their container handing
facilities and building
new ones, and e xpan din g in termodal
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deploying were growing in capacity and that the Panama Canal was to be expanded—in a project
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