At the Port of Philadelphia, two harbor cranes, as large as any in the world, will arrive in early March. The first ship taking used-car exports will leave Philadelphia for Africa next month, and the largest ship ever to sail up the Delaware River will dock here in January with cargoes from South America.
Sounds like a busy 2018 will follow on the heels of a bang-up 2017.
Sounds like a busy 2018. It follows on the heels of a bang-up 2017 at the port, which saw more containerized freight, more cars, more cargoes such as wood pulp, and the promise of those larger cranes, capable of unloading larger ships. "Right now, we can't build fast enough," said port CEO Jeff Theobald."We have to get through this construction as quickly as possible to get those jobs going. And then move on to Phase Two. Clearly, we need more warehouse space. We're trying to look at properties available."
Instead of retrofitting an existing terminal at Tioga, port officials shifted gears and decided to add 100,000 square feet of"food grade" warehouse space for wood-pulp shipments. Fibria Celulose, the world's largest producer of eucalyptus pulp, sends 400,000 tons of pulp from Brazil to Tioga annually. A second pulp customer, CMPC Celulosa, also ships to Tioga, and now other wood-pulp producers want to come, too.
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