Howland Hook Marine Terminal
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The Howland Hook Marine Terminal, operating as Port Liberty New York, is a container port facility in the Port of New York and New Jersey located at Howland Hook in northwestern Staten Island, New York City. It is situated on the east side of the Arthur Kill, at the entrance to Newark Bay, just north of the Goethals Bridge and Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge.
Built by American Export Lines, the site originally housed a B & O coal dumper, which was completed in 1949.<ref name="SIRT">Template:Cite book</ref> The facility had a capacity of 100 cars per eight-hour shift.<ref name="SIRT" /> The dumped coal was delivered via barge to utilities in the harbor.<ref name="SIRT" /> It was in the process of being dismantled by mid-1965.<ref name="SIRT" /> The terminal was purchased in 1973 by the New York City government for $47.5 million,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and United States Lines moved its container port operation there that year.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1985, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) leased the terminal for 38 years.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The PANYNJ took full ownership of Howland Hook Marine Terminal in 2024.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The PANYNJ currently contracts CMA CGM to operate a container terminal on the site.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The facility is Template:Convert in size, but there have been plans for expansion with the acquisition in 2001 of the adjacent Template:Convert Port Ivory, a former shipping port operated by Procter & Gamble.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The terminal operates a Template:Convert long wharf on the Arthur Kill, with three berths for container ships. The wharf depth is Template:Convert for Template:Convert; Template:Convert for Template:Convert; and Template:Convert for Template:Convert.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A fourth Template:Convert long berth with Template:Convert depth is planned on the old Port Ivory site.<ref>New York Container Terminal Expansion, NYCEDC</ref> Facilities include container storage, a deep-freeze refrigerated warehouse and United States Customs Service inspection.
The facility is also used to transfer containerized municipal waste from barges to trains, handling roughly half of New York City's barged trash volume.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The terminal includes an on-site seven-track ExpressRail intermodal facility <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> that connects via the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge to New Jersey and the national rail network. Two tracks are used for transferring waste containers. The rail facility opened in mid-2007 and uses part of the once-abandoned North Shore Branch of the Staten Island Railway, which leads into the Arlington Yard, and the Travis branch, along the West Shore.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
See alsoEdit
- Port Jersey Marine Terminal
- Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal
- Red Hook Marine Terminal
- Geography of New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary
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