Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal
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Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal is the name for the port facility in Newark Bay that serves as the principal container ship facility for goods entering and leaving the metropolitan region of New York City and the northeastern quadrant of North America. It consists of two components (Port Newark and the Elizabeth Marine Terminal, sometimes called "Port Elizabeth") which exist side-by-side and are run conjointly by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The facility is located within the boundaries of the two cities of Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey, just east of the New Jersey Turnpike and Newark Liberty International Airport.
The Port is fifteenth busiest in the world today, but was number one as recently as 1985.
Planned and built during the 1950s by the Port Authority, it is the largest container port in the eastern United States and the third largest in the country. Container goods typically arrive on container ships through the Narrows and the Kill Van Kull before entering Newark Bay, a shallow body of water which is dredged to accommodate the larger ships (some ships enter Newark Bay via the Arthur Kill). The port facility consistes of two main dredged slips and multiple loading cranes. Metal containers are stacked in large arrays visible from the New Jersey Turnpike before being loaded onto rail cars and trucks. The building of the port facility antiquated most of the waterfront port facilities in New York Harbor, leading to a steep decline in such areas as Manhattan, Hoboken, and Brooklyn. The automated nature of the facility requires far fewer workers and does not require the opening of containers before onward shipping.
Since 1998 the Port has seen a 65 percent increase in traffic volume. In 2003 the Port moved over $100 billion in goods. Plans are underway for billions of dollars of improvements - larger cranes, bigger railyard facilities, deeper channels, and expanded wharves. New longshoremen are being hired as well.
Today, the major Port operators include Maher Terminals, APM Terminal (Maersk), Port Newark Container Terminal (PNCT), NYCT, and Global Marine Terminal.
-Port Newark Container Terminal (PNCT)
Over the past four years, a significant capital investment has been allocated by P&O Ports and A.P. Møller-Maersk (formerly Royal P&O Nedlloyd) for the redevelopment of the existing Port Newark Container Terminal (PNCT) in Port Newark, New Jersey. The initial redevelopment plan has been completed which included strengthened and deepened berths to accommodate super post panamax vessels, deployment of state-of-the-art cranes and straddle carriers, the installation of OCR gate technology, advanced terminal management systems and a near-dock rail facility which was created exclusively for PNCT users.
Today, PNCT continues to be the most advanced 180 acre container terminal on the US East Coast, with the capacity to handle one million containers (measured in 20-foot equivalent units) with 4,400 feet of deep water wharf.
The synergy created by the combined, longstanding industry experience of P&O Ports in terminal development and operations and A.P. Møller-Maersk in ocean transportation and water-side operations, the introduction of modern equipment, state-of-the-art cranes, IT management technology and highly trained ILA labor makes Port Newark Container Terminal a world-class facility that significantly enhances customer services and increases productivity and capacity for the New York/New Jersey Shipping Community.
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