Port of Paulsboro is located on the Delaware River and Mantua Creek in and around Paulsboro, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, USA, about 78 miles (126 km) from the Atlantic Ocean. Traditionally one of the busiest in the country for marine transport operations, especially for crude oil and petroleum products, such as jet fuel and asphalt, it is a port of entry with several facilities within the foreign trade zone.
Some ports are being rebuilt as adaptable deepwater omniport capable of handling loads of cargo and breaking bulk cargo, as well as shipping containers. It is targeted to be a manufacturing/assembly center for wind turbines for wind power development in New Jersey and other offshore wind projects along the East Coast of the United States. The Paulsboro Marine Terminal, as it is known, is owned by the South Jersey Port Corporation and operated by Holt Logistics. The first vessel is expected to arrive at a new facility in early 2017 bringing steel to NLMK. The first ship to call at the port, Doric Warior, carries steel for NLMK, arrives March 3, 2017, marking the opening of a new facility.
Video Port of Paulsboro
Location and access
Port of Paulsboro is one of several in the Delaware Valley metro area and is located on the eastern edge of the Delaware River in Gloucester County, New Jersey across from Philadelphia International Airport. The 96 acre (38.8 ha) site at Fort Billingsport is the first land purchase by the United States government, created by the Continental Congress on July 5, 1776. The port was first developed to handle petroleum products in 1917 by Vacuum Oil. Company. Port of Paulsboro has been used to refer to marine transfer operations at Thompson Point in Greenwich Township, Gibbstown (Greenwich Township), Billingsport, Mantua Creek, Eagle Point in West Deptford, and Westville. This is the port of entry in the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) District 21, which includes New Jersey.
Delivery channels and lighthouses
The tidal Delaware River in Paulsboro, which is about 78 miles (126 km) from the Atlantic Ocean at the entrance to Delaware Bay. Since 1942, the Main Channel of the Delaware River has been maintained at a depth of 40 feet (12 m). A 102.5 mile (165.0 km) stretch of federal navigation shipping channel is being deepened to 45 feet (14 m) from Port of Camden and Port of Philadelphia to the bay, with a 2017 completion date projected. Local guidance is generally required for larger commercial vessels. Anchorage No. 9 is around the mouth of Mantua Creek, where the river channel is 30 feet (9.1 m).
Tinicum Island Rear Range Light and Tinicum Front Range Light, known as the Billingsport Front Light, are a pair of range lamps that serve the downstream range of ports. This is the front and back lighthouse of the seafarers' guide, by aligning two lights and keeping one on top of the other, keeping in the center of the channel and avoiding Little Tinicum Island. Back lamps are registered in state and federal registers of historic places.
Roads and rail
The harbor is located near New Jersey Route 44 and Interstate 295. The rail service on different spurs from Penns Grove Secondary is located in the Joint Asset Area in South Jersey/Philadelphia Conrail, which operates the rail line along the line for the owners of CSX Transportation and Norfolk Railway South. The SMS Track line handles transfers in parts of the port.
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Petroleum
In 2010, crude oil accounted for more than half of all annual cargo tonnages on the Delaware River. Several oil refineries and depots in Paulsboro, Greenwich Township and West Deptford have been operating in ports since the first one was developed in 1917. On various occasions Citgo, Mobil, BP, Sun Oil, Valero, PBF Energy and NuStar Energy have maintained the facility which is adjacent to the port, as General American Transportation Corporation (GATX). In addition to maritime diversion operations, petroleum facilities are also served by tanker trucks, rail transport, and pipelines, including one to Philadelphia Airport across the river and one to the closest intersection with the Colonial Pipeline system.
The Paulsboro Refinery is a 950-acre (380Ã, ha) facility adjacent to Paulsboro in nearby Gibbstown (Greenwich Township) and processes acid-to-heavy crude oil to produce unleaded gasoline, heating oil and jet fuel. This is one of only two facilities on the East Coast that can process petroleum coke. This is a Special Subject 142A Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) no. 142 in 1995. In 1998, Valero Energy Corporation purchased facilities from Mobil and in 2010 sold it to PBF with support from Blackstone Group and First Reserve Corporation. The construction of a new tanker tanker was completed in 2010 by Weeks Marine.
Eagle Point Refinery at West Deptford is a 1,000 acre (400 ha) oil refinery which used to be a tomato processing plant and became a US Army ammunition depot during World War I and II. This property was acquired by Texaco and commenced purification operations in 1949. It was purchased by Coastal Oil in May 1985 and in 1997 became the foreign trade of the 142C Special Subject. In January 2004, it was purchased by Sunoco, which announced its permanent closure in 2010. The plant was dismantled in 2015 so new facilities could be planned by Sunoco. The adjacent tank farms, with tank trucks, trains, pipes, and marine transport operations, remain active.
The Paulsboro Terminal began as an oil depot during World War I. In 1929, Patterson Oil further developed the property as an oil storage and fuel terminal. East Gas & amp; Fuel took over in 1954 and completed terminal expansion. It sold the terminal in 1960 to the Sinclair Refining Corporation. In 1969, after Sinclair and Atlantic Richfield Company merged, BP bought the property. The 130-acre facility (53 ha) ceased operations in 1996 and is being rebuilt as part of the new omniport.
The Citgo Asphalt Refining Company (CARCO) asphalt refiner on the eastern side of Mantua Creek was purchased by NuStar Energy in 2007. It became the foreign trade of Subzone 142B Special Purpose in 1996. NuStar also has a small tank farm with a truck transport terminal in Billingsport. In 2008 NuStar sold half of its business to Lindsay Goldberg, who bought the company directly in February 2014, changing its name to Axeon Specialty Products. The bitumen refinery, classified as the largest in America, is scheduled to close in 2017.
The Plains Terminal is a storage of petroleum products and a marine transfer facility in Billingsport that extends a tank pond with eight new storage tanks in 2009. It is owned by ExxonMobil, GATX Terminals Corporation, taken over by Kinder Morgan, and by the Operations Partnership Support Terminal (NuStar subsidiary). In 2012, the Plains All American Pipeline and previous owners settled with NJ DEP to remediate hazardous substances on the ground at the site. It has been part of the Foreign Trade Sub-IDA Special Purpose 142A since 1995.
Oil spill tank
On 26 November 2004, 265,000 US gallons (1,000 m 3 ) of crude oil spilled from the Cyprus-flagged oil tanker Athos 1 , which is preparing to dock at Citgo asphalt Refinery, after his keel was inserted by a submerged anchor and disposed of. Citgo was released from liability in 2011. The oil spill has had an impact on the estuary.
In October 2007, another spill occurred at the harbor when about 1,200 gallons (4.5 m 3 ) oil leaked from Tigani, an 809-foot (247 m tanker flagged Malta operated by Cardiff Marine.
Solar array
When opened in 2003 by BP on a 17-acre (6.9Ã, ha) landfill at the Dow Chemical brownfield site, a photovoltaic system, or solar array, adjacent to the former BP Paulsboro Terminal, is the largest facility for solar power in New Jersey and one of one of the largest on the East Coast. BP is building a solar power facility, designed for peak demand of 276 kilowatts and 350,000 kilowatt-hours per year, to showcase the potential of brownfields to redevelop the brightfield.
Paulsboro Marine Terminal
The South Jersey Port Corporation (SJPC) operates three terminals in Port of Camden and one in Port of Salem. The agency works with the Gloucester County Improvement Authority (GCIA) to develop a deep water resource at the confluence of the Delaware River and Mantua Creek. Estimated cost of $ 274 million, construction commenced in the fall of 2009 for a marine terminal at brownfield site at 130 acres (53Ã, ha) of former BP and petrochemical oil storage facilities and 60 acres (24 ha) from a former chemical plant from Dow Chemical.
The Paulsboro Marine Terminal will include an industrial park and is designed to integrate changing needs for industrial manufacturing, value-added processing, and distribution spaces, and to provide complete intermodal transport capabilities. The terminal will handle bulk diversity and break up bulk cargo, as well as shipping containers. New infrastructure includes docks, warehouse space, gullies with rainwater retention, highway access, and rail infrastructure. This will include facility connections to adjacent solar power facilities.
Originally scheduled to open in 2012, it was later postponed to 2013. The infrastructure construction work is being completed gradually and the installation of terminal facilities has been further delayed by the lack of commercial clients. SJPC has an initial Memorandum of Understanding with a number of companies. The Dole Food Company is considered relocating its import operations, but in August 2013 decided to remain in Port of Wilmington (Delaware).
In July 2014, SJPC and Holt Logistics announced that the company might move some of their operations to Paulsboro as part of a land swap deal in Port of Camden. The first tenant, NMLK Steel, will occupy about 40 acres of ports to carry steel sheets and move them to rail cars for distribution across the country.
Wind power logistics center
In August 2010, legislation to encourage wind power development in New Jersey was signed by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in Port of Paulsboro. The Offshore Wind Economic Development Act authorized the New Jersey Economic Development Authority to provide up to $ 100 million tax credit for wind energy facilities. The study completed in 2012 concluded that the port is well suited to be a center for wind turbine manufacture, assembly, and transportation that will be used for further development of Atlantic Wind Connection.
Dredging
Location surveys for the Army Engineer Corps (USACE) permit to build projects undertaken by CH2M Hill. In 2011, USACE approved an additional 27 acre (11 hectare) dredging area at a meeting of 40 feet (12 m) in the river and 20 feet (6.1 m) in the river to provide deep berths and get dredged contents. for omniport. The terminal site has been raised up to 10 feet (3 m) with 300,000 cubic meters (230,000 m 3 ) of the dredging contents of rivers and creeks to be above 100-year floodplains and potential sea level rise due to changes climate caused by global warming.
Docks
The planned dock capacity will allow for 550 feet (170 m) long barges and 2,400 feet (730 m) deep at 40 feet (12 m) deep water depth at Mean Low Water (MLW) which will also accommodate three Handymax sized vessels. The bulkhead construction is designed to protect submerged water vegetation. The last dock construction, previously offered by three companies in 2012, may be delayed until 2016, pending a lease agreement signed by South Jersey Port Corporation with the company to use the port. Shippers and industrial companies can request various dock specifications, depending on the finished goods, materials, and commodities they handle.
Access road to I-295
Traditionally, access to the various harbor facilities west of Mantua Creek has been through New Jersey Route 44 on the historic vertical suspension bridge at 1.7 miles built in 1935 and locally known as Gateway to Paulsboro . It is owned and operated by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), which was last renovated significantly in 1986-1988.
A portion of the road to which the Interstate 295 will be established in 1948. Gloucester County Improvement Authority is building a new connector, funded by the New Jersey Department of Transport and is expected to be completed by 2014, which will create a gateway from I-295 to a new marine terminal. These include new access roads and 0.75 mile (1.2 km) over the river from Paradise Road in West Deptford between the Gloucester County sewage treatment plant and the NuStar Energy asphalt refinery. Paradise Road, which turns into Mantua Creek Road, provides direct access to Exit 19 of I-295. This new routing through West Deptford will avoid heavy truck traffic through residential areas in Paulsboro.
Rail Infrastructure
This port is located within the Shared Asset Area in South Jersey/Philadelphia Conrail. The SMS Track line handles the exchange with the secondary Pennsary Grove line. The new infrastructure in the omniport includes the construction of railroads, turnouts, and 11,000 ft (3,400 m) lanes with balloon rings for dock accessibility. Estimated cost of $ 3.2 million and completed in 2014. The federal funding partly for this work was obtained in 2011 by SJPC, Conrail and Salem County utilizing $ 117.65 million in infrastructure funds for marine terminals and other South Jersey projects. They include upgrading the southern portion of the Salem Bicycle railway line from Swedesboro to Port of Salem and retrofitting the Delair Bridge, the most downward crossing crossing from Delaware and a regional connection to the national rail network, to accommodate industry standards, 286,000-pounds (130,000 kg) car rail capacity.
Jefferson Street Bridge
The Jefferson Street Bridge is a bridge moving railway over Mantua Creek, 1.3 miles (2.1 km) upstream from its mouth. The 160-foot (49 m) "A-Frame", shear pole, swing bridge was originally built in 1917 and rebuilt in 1940. After part of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines (PRSL), it is now part of Conrail's Penns Grove Secondary. Originally opened manually, it was partly automated between 2000 and 2003.
Buckling bridge led to derailment of coal trains in 2009. More than 15 rail cars left the rails, though none were toppled. In November 2012, seven cars skidded across the bridge. Of the four cars that fell into the river, some were punctured, releasing 23,000 gallons of US (87 m 3 ) from the highly toxic vinyl chloride, requiring evacuation in the area and the locking of the Paulsboro school. The removal of a skidding car and an environmental cleanup are handled by the U.S. Coast Guard.
In March 2013, Conrail announces that the bridge will be replaced by expected September 2014 operational date. Typically, between March 1 and November 30 the bridge is left in an open position for maritime traffic and closed when the train approaches. It will remain locked in a closed position until the bridge is replaced.
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See also
- List of ports in the United States
- Port of Salem
- Refinery Bayway
- Coastal Chemicals
- Delaware City Refinery
- Refineries in New Jersey
References
External links
- Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission - Site Search
- Environmental Impact Statement for Paulsboro Marine Terminal Project (PDF) (Report). South Jersey Port Company. May 2009.
- Inventory of Environmental Resources for Borough of Paulsboro (PDF) (Report). Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC). March 2011.
- Gloucester Enhancement Authority (GCIA)
- Maritime Trades in the Greater Philadelphia Area - Assessing Industrial Trends and Growth Opportunities for Delaware River Ports (PDF) (Report). Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation. July 2008.
- Panoramio image location around Port of Paulsboro
- Philly Freight Finder DVRPC
- "Paulsboro - The New Omniport" (video) . South Jersey Port Corporation.
- "Port of Paulsboro, NJ - US TradeNumber" . Retrieved January 24 2017 .
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