To mark this weekend’s celebration of Earth Day 2017, the Port Authority today announced two new environmental initiatives to supplement several existing programs to further reduce emissions and improve air quality around the Port of New York and New Jersey. Under one initiative, the agency will launch a demonstration project with GCT New York and APM Terminals to retrofit two yard tractors for each facility with auto stop-start hybrid technology. Yard tractors account for the largest number of on-terminal vehicles in the port and contribute to 33 percent of all cargo-handling equipment emissions. The Port Authority will reimburse each terminal up to $72,000 for theRead More →

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On Thursday, September 15, the first of approximately 100 containers of waste paper were loaded on a barge at the Red Hook Container Terminal (RHCT), Brooklyn. Later that day, the 300-foot-long, tug-pulled barge made the trip across the Upper Bay, through the Kill Van Kull, and up Newark Bay to Port Newark Container Terminal (PNCT) in 90 minutes. The cargo was then loaded onto Mediterranean Shipping Co.’s (MSC) 8,000 TEU ship, the MSC Anzu, on Sunday, September 18, and shipped to China. This new container-on-barge service between New York and New Jersey is the culmination of two years’ planning and obtaining approvals. In 2014, RHCTRead More →

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