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cameraman
02-22-11, 11:45 AM
These Danes are not messing about.

http://www.worldslargestship.com/#
(ya might want to turn down the sound)

An 18,000 TEU container ship. They will never come to the US, no port here is big enough to handle them.

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dando
02-22-11, 12:11 PM
The Somali pirates are gonna love this. :gomer:

-Kevin
Andrew Longman
02-22-11, 12:11 PM
Great. According to this http://www.gizmag.com/triple-e-maersk-worlds-largest-ship/17938/ the height will be 73 meters/239 feet.

According to this http://www.northjersey.com/news/091410_bayonne_bridge.html we are paying a billion dollars and enduring years of messed up traffic to raise the Bayonne bridge to 215 feet so the Port of Elizabeth can stay competitive.
racer2c
02-22-11, 12:32 PM
Is it unsinkable!?!? :)
cameraman
02-22-11, 12:39 PM
we are paying a billion dollars and enduring years of messed up traffic to raise the Bayonne bridge to 215 feet so the Port of Elizabeth can stay competitive.

Seems to me it would be a far better idea to put that billion into building a terminal at what used to be the military ocean terminal.
dando
02-22-11, 12:47 PM
Seems to me it would be a far better idea to put that billion into building a terminal at what used to be the military ocean terminal.

It's NJ, yo. :saywhat: :shakehead

-Kevin
Andrew Longman
02-22-11, 02:13 PM
Seems to me it would be a far better idea to put that billion into building a terminal at what used to be the military ocean terminal.Already doing that. The Port Authority is also developing that. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/bayonne_officials_approve_port.html

The issue there is that intermodal rail/truck traffic would still need to get over or around Newark Bay. For that reason the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth are better located on the west side of the bay.

But you may have a point.

That said, the Port Authority, while seemingly immune from any great transparency or accountability or political control, seems to be about the only government agency around here that actually gets good stuff done. Maybe that's why. :gomer:

But I'm guessing their plan is pretty well thought through. Unless it isn't.