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Port Jersey is an intermodal freight transport facility that includes a container terminal located on the Upper New York Bay in the Port of New York and New Jersey. The municipal border of the Hudson County, New Jersey cities of Jersey City and Bayonne runs along the long pier extending into the bay. To the north is the adjacent Greenville Yards on a manmade peninsula created in the early 1900s by the Pennsylvania Railroad〔(New York Cross Harbor Railraid website with description of Greenville Yard )〕〔(US Army Corp of Engineers )〕 and Claremont Terminal, once part of the Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway operations. A canal to the south separates it from Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne (MOTBY), a former military base that is now the site of one of the New York metropolitan area's three cruise ship terminals and site of a planned post-panamax container terminal, the region's first expected to open in 2012.〔http://apps.njtpa.org/consultant/Consultant/Files/Creating%20A%20Regional%20Freight%20Platform%20Final.pdf〕 Deepening of the Port Jersey Channel to 50 feet was authorized by the Army Corps of Engineers in 2010. Most of the facility is part of United States Foreign-Trade Zone 49.〔(PANYNJ FTZ 49 )〕 A major part of the pier is used by Global Marine Terminal,〔(Global Marine Terminal )〕〔(Auto Marine Terminal ),〕 a major shipping facility for the New York Harbor, and one of the very few left on the traditional shipping waterfront, most having relocated to Port Newark. It was acquired by the Port Authority in July 2010 It is also one of the few areas on the Bergen Neck peninsula where freight rail lines are still in use.〔(PJRR )〕〔(NY Harbor Intermodal Facilities )〕〔()〕 In October 2010, the Port Authority, announced plans to develop ExpressRail Port Jersey, allowing for more transfers to trains, and thus reducing transfers to trucks. Trains will use a renovated National Docks Secondary freight line to access the national network, part of the Liberty Freight Corridor. There are also plans for the expansion of Exit 14A on the Newark Bay Extension of the New Jersey Turnpike in anticipation of increase demand for truck traffic. Most of the area is restricted, though a walkway along its northern side is accessible to the general public and may eventually connect with the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway. A very small bird sanctuary (specifically for the least tern)〔(Hudson County Master Plan )〕 is located on the promenade. In June 2014, new Container cranes came into operation at Port Jersey, making it one of the few marine terminals able to handle post-Panamax ships. == Greenville Yard == The Greenville Yard takes its name from the former town of Greenville which became part of Jersey City in the 1860s and lie east of New Jersey Route 185. The yard also lends its name to a nearby industrial park and distribution center. The yard was first developed in 1904 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and opened with three based on designs of their bridges at Harsimus Cove. They were referred to as No.11, No.12, and No.13. A number of different organizations were involved in its construction: the Steele & Condict Company of New Jersey manufactured the bridge mechanisms, Henry Steers, Inc. did the foundation, pile racks, bridges, and aprons, while the Cooper-Wigand-Cooke Company and the R.P. & J.H. Staats Company of New York jointly erected the bridge superstructure and transfer machinery housing. The new designs utilized electric motors and controls, and a live load counterweight system. PRR set the industry standard for electrified lift bridges with this design; virtually identical bridges were built in the Port of New York and New Jersey area by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad at their Oak Point Yard in 1908, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at their St. George, Staten Island terminal in 1912. A fourth bridge, No.14, was added in 1910, and a fifth, No.10, in 1924. This was constructed by the Schuylkill Bridge Works Division of the Lewis F. Shoemaker & Company. The New York New Jersey Rail, LLC, (formerly the New York Cross Harbor Railroad), transfers freight cars across the bay to the Bush Terminal Yard in Brooklyn, New York. This car float operation reduces transfer time since they are not permitted to use New York Tunnel Extension under the Hudson River, Manhattan, and East River. Overland must they cross the Hudson 140 miles (225 km) to the north at Selkirk, New York, making a detour known as the "Selkirk hurdle." NYNJ leases approximately of land at Conrail's Greenville Yard, where it connects with two Class I railroads – CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway – both use Conrail's North Jersey Shared Assets Area Access to the national freight rail network and Canadian Pacific Railway is possible via the Lehigh Valley Railroad Bridge to the west or the Long Dock Tunnel to the northwest. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Port Jersey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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