Port Jersey
Port Jersey, with the Statue of Liberty in the foreground
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| Official name | Port Jersey Port Authority Marine Terminal |
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| Type | Intermodal freight transport facility |
| Locale |
Bayonne & Jersey City New Jersey |
| Operator |
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey New York New Jersey Rail, LLC Conrail Shared Assets Operations GCT Bayonne, LP |
| Clearance below | 50 feet (15 m) |
| Coordinates | 40°40′16″N 74°04′26″W / 40.671°N 74.074°WCoordinates: 40°40′16″N 74°04′26″W / 40.671°N 74.074°W |
The Port Jersey Port Authority Marine Terminal, commonly abbreviated as the Port Jersey Marine Terminal or simply 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 cities of Jersey City and Bayonne runs along the long pier extending into the bay. The north end of the facility houses the Greenville Yard, a rail yard located on a manmade peninsula that was built in the early 1900s by the Pennsylvania Railroad, in addition to the Claremont Terminal, once part of the Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway operations. The central area of the facility contains GCT Bayonne, a major post-panamax shipping facility operated by Global Container Terminals that underwent a major expansion in June 2014. The largest ship ever to call at the Port of New York-New Jersey, the MOL Benefactor, docked at Port Jersey in July 2016 after sailing from China through the newly widened Panama Canal.
Most of Port Jersey is part of United States Foreign-Trade Zone 49. The facility was acquired by the Port Authority in July 2010. It is one of the few areas on the Bergen Neck peninsula where freight rail lines are still in use. Most of the area in and around the facility 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) is also located on the promenade.
A canal to the south of Port Jersey separates it from the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor, a multi-use development area that is home to the Cape Liberty Cruise Port one of the New York metropolitan area's three cruise ship terminals. The peninsula was formerly the Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne (MOTBY), a former military base. Deepening of the Port Jersey Channel to 50 feet was authorized by the Army Corps of Engineers in 2010.
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