First new US terminal in a decade opens in North Charleston
The first vessel to dock at the new Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal, the Yorktown Express, has gone alongside in North Charleston on the US east coast.
Many in the shipping industry will breathe a sigh of relief now that the first new box terminal to open in the US in a decade has gone operational.
The first vessel to berth at the $1bn South Carolina Ports flagship facility was the 3,237-teu Yorktown Express.
With 426m of quayside and a 47-acre container yard, an annual capacity of 700,000 teu and 25 hybrid cranes, the new facility will do much to alleviate the chronic port congestion the US is experiencing as a result of the pandemic and new patterns of consumption.
“SC Ports moved more cargo than ever before in March. This significant achievement leads up to another historic milestone as we prepare to welcome the first ship to the Leatherman Terminal on Friday,” SC Ports president and CEO Jim Newsome said yesterday.
