As of Monday, the storied yard became Global Container Transport Bayonne ExpressRail Port Jersey. The name change crowns a $149-million construction project linking Global Container’s Bayonne, N.J., terminal to both CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern’s networks.
Work on the upgraded yard began in May 2017 to increase annual capacity to 430,000 twenty-foot container equivalent units and 250,000 container lifts. The expanded yard consists of 8 tracks — totaling almost three miles — and will have four electric cantilever rail-mounted gantry cranes with LED lighting.
The added rail facilities are part of a $600-million Port Authority capital investment program that established direct rail access to on-dock and near-dock intermodal rail services at all of its major marine terminals. Global Container Terminal has another New York Area facility in Staten Island, N.Y., as well as well two in the Vancouver, British Columbia, area.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey oversees the upgraded terminal, which is operated by switching and terminal lines.
The yard is expected to eliminate 375,000 trucks from highways per year and the reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 18,300 tons annually. At this time, trucks still account for moving 85 percent of the containers on and off port terminals today.
Other Port Authority investments in the ExpressRail System include ExpressRail Elizabeth, ExpressRail Port Newark, the Corbin Street Support Yard at Port Elizabeth, N.J., and ExpressRail Staten Island, each run by separate private operators.
Four tracks active loading connect to a lead track and two gantry cranes. It is expected that the facility will be built out to 9,600 linear feet of an eight-track working pad, two lead tracks, as well as additional support and train storage tracks by mid-2019.
“This port is a pivotal gateway not only for goods destined for the 27 million consumers in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area, but for the millions of others in markets within 250 miles of the port,” said Port Authority Executive Director Rick Cotton.
The $149 million will be repaid through a Cargo Facility Charge, a fee assessed on cargo shipped through the Port of New York and New Jersey by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Good map, but a bit out of date since it still shows CP going to Fresh Pond Jct.
Kudos to NewsWire for including the really excellent map.