A railfan the other night told me that Norfolk gets as many containers as North Jersey these days? How true is this?
lakeshoredave wrote:A railfan the other night told me that Norfolk gets as many containers as North Jersey these days? How true is this?Well, not quite (1st Half 2006 numbers):
Los Angeles (4,620,000 TEU; +10.2% growth);
Long Beach (4,110,000 TEU; +10.5% growth);
New York/New Jersey (2,100,000 TEU; +10% growth);
Oakland (1,360,000 TEU; +7.8% growth);
Vancouver (1,230,000 TEU; +25% growth);
Savannah (1,210,000 TEU; +15.1% growth);
Tacoma (1,160,000 TEU; +3.6% growth);
Charleston (1,150,000 TEU; -1.4% growth);
Seattle (1,120,000 TEU; -3.7% growth),
Virginia (1,110,000 TEU; +5.2% growth).
New York/NJ would include PA of NY/NJ (North Jersey & Howland Hook, Staten Island);
Virginia: Virgina Port Authority, includes Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News and the Virginia 'Inland Port' in Warren County.
I realized this is International Container traffic - I haven't found anything counting domestic traffic, which would include, say, railing a container from say Chicago to Newark, and then trucking it to Long Island...