Mayor de Blasio Announces Major Milestones to Activate New Maritime Shipping Hub

Mayor de Blasio Joins State, Federal, and Local Officials to Announce Major Milestones to Activate New Maritime Shipping Hub in Southwest Brooklyn

City to Activate Key Maritime Industrial Site at South Brooklyn Marine Terminal to Deliver High Quality Jobs to the Working Waterfront

Federal Government Recognizes SBMT and Red Hook Container Terminal as Part of America's Marine Highway System; "Container On Barge Service" Will Eliminate Tens of Thousands of Truck Trips from Ports in New Jersey

Mayor Bill de Blasio joined state, federal and local officials to announce the reactivation of the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Sunset Park as a working maritime port facility. SBMT is a key maritime asset owned by the City that will be turned into a hub for maritime commerce, creating hundreds of good jobs.

The U.S. Maritime Administration and U.S. Department of Transportation today recognized SBMT’s importance by designating it and nearby Red Hook Container Terminal as part of America’s Marine Highway System, which will make cargo operations in Southwest Brooklyn eligible for future federal support. These announcements represent key milestones in ongoing efforts to reestablish Southwest Brooklyn as a vital shipping hub, and they reflect the City's interest in the long-term phased development of a deep water container port in New York’s harbor.

In May, the City Council approved a long-term Master Lease between the City and NYCEDC to activate an industrial maritime facility at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal. The project will return maritime service to SBMT and allow for calls from a new generation of cargo ships that import consumer goods and raw materials from around the world. In addition, upgraded rail connections at the site make SBMT the only marine terminal in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island capable of handling ocean-going vessels, barges and rail on the east side of New York Harbor. As a result of the agreement reached between the City, NYCEDC and the City Council, the activation of SBMT will result in hundreds of jobs on the working waterfront and provides for the formation of the Sunset Park Waterfront Planning and Jobs Task Force to assist in long-term planning for the future of the waterfront and balance the City’s industrial goals with the needs of the Sunset Park community.

In January 2015, NYCEDC and the Port Authority co-sponsored an application to the U.S. Maritime Administration to designate existing and future barge service across New York Harbor as a segment of the American Marine Highway Program. The new route will provide access to origins and destinations east of the Hudson River for freight arriving and departing the Port Newark Container Terminal, further enhancing New York Harbor’s cross harbor freight network and supporting existing container-on-barge service between Global Container Terminals in Bayonne and Staten Island.

The “America’s Marine Highway Program” is a federal initiative, led by the U.S. Department of Transportation, that seeks to integrate the nation’s 29,000 nautical miles of navigable waterways into the overall U.S. transportation network, alleviating highway congestion and providing public benefits including better air quality and reduced road maintenance costs. Shipping by water is the most efficient method of freight transportation: one barge carrying bulk cargo can eliminate up to 60 trucks, while a barge carrying containerized cargo can eliminate up to 250 trucks from local roads. Shipping by water produces seven times less carbon emissions and 20 times less nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide per ton than trucking.

South Brooklyn Marine Terminal
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Brooklyn, NY 11232

June 29, 2015

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