New York container terminal (Staten Island) north gate

The Howland Hook Marine Terminal, operating as ‘’’GCT New York,’’’ is a container port facility in the

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located at Howland Hook in northwestern

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. It is situated on the east side of the

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, at the entrance to

Newark Bay Newark Bay is a tidal bay at the confluence of the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers in northeastern New Jersey. It is home to the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, the largest container shipping facility in Port of New York and New Jer ...

, 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. The facility had a capacity of 100 cars per eight-hour shift. The dumped coal was delivered via barge to utilities in the harbor. It was in the process of being dismantled by Summer 1965. The terminal was purchased in 1973 by New York City for $47.5 million. In 1985, the

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leased the terminal from the city for a period of 38 years. The

currently contracts Global Container to operate a container terminal on the site. The facility is in size, but there have been plans for expansion with the acquisition in 2001 of the adjacent

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, a former shipping port operated by

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. The terminal operates a long wharf on the Arthur Kill, with three berths for

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s. The wharf depth is for , for , for . A fourth long berth with depth is planned on the old Port Ivory site. Facilities include container storage, a deep-freeze refrigerated warehouse and

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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. The terminal includes an on-site seven-track ExpressRail intermodal facility that connects via the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge to

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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

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, which leads into the Arlington Yard, and the Travis branch, along the West Shore.

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Port Authority site on Howland HookNew York Container Terminal, Inc.
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