Friday, March 9, 2012

A Wider Panama Canal Could Lead to a NY Boom, But City May Not Be Ready | Transportation Nation

A Wider Panama Canal Could Lead to a NY Boom, But City May Not Be Ready | Transportation Nation: "“Right now ports on the East Coast, except for Norfolk, can’t handle those ships because their harbors aren’t deep enough,” said Bib Silverman, the Jones Lang LaSalle analyst.  The dredging projects will help with that.  But the Port of New York and New Jersey has one additional problem:  the big ships won’t fit underneath the Bayonne Bridge, that connects New Jersey to Staten Island."

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