The Howland Hook Marine Terminal, operating as Port Liberty New York, is a

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port facility in the

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located at Howland Hook in northwestern

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. It is situated on the east side of the

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, at the entrance to

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, just north of the Goethals Bridge and Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge. Built by American Export Lines, the site originally housed a B & O coal dumper, which was completed in 1949. The facility had a capacity of 100 cars per eight-hour shift. The dumped coal was delivered via barge to utilities in the harbor. It was in the process of being dismantled by mid-1965. The terminal was purchased in 1973 by the New York City government for $47.5 million, and

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moved its container port operation there that year. In 1985, the

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(PANYNJ) leased the terminal for 38 years. The PANYNJ took full ownership of Howland Hook Marine Terminal in 2024. The PANYNJ currently contracts CMA CGM to operate a container terminal on the site. The facility is in size, but there have been plans for expansion with the acquisition in 2001 of the adjacent Port Ivory, a former shipping port operated by

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. The terminal operates a long wharf on the Arthur Kill, with three berths for

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s. The wharf depth is for ; for ; and for . A fourth long berth with depth is planned on the old Port Ivory site. Facilities include container storage, a deep-freeze refrigerated warehouse and

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inspection. The facility is also used to transfer containerized municipal waste from barges to trains, handling roughly half of New York City's barged trash volume. The terminal includes an on-site seven-track

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intermodal facility that connects via the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge to

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and the national rail network. Two tracks are used for transferring waste containers. The rail facility opened in mid-2007 and uses part of the once-abandoned

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of the

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, which leads into the Arlington Yard, and the Travis branch, along the West Shore.

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External links

Port Authority site on Howland Hook

New York Container Terminal, Inc.
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