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Posted by Peter Rosa on Wed Oct 30 11:47:01 2024 Containerized shipping. During the 1960's and 1970's, its rapid spread almost completely kiboshed commercial shipping in the port of New York, and there's no hope of recovery. The old "break bulk" shipping, in which teams of longshoremen loaded and unloaded ships by hand, didn't require much space and hence was completely suitable for a crowded city like New York.Containerized shipping is completely different. It requires massive amounts of landside space and double-stack rail access. Howland Hook on Staten Island is New York's only container port (Brooklyn handles a small amount of other shipping), and even though it's a relatively small port with a capacity of two large ships at a time if you magically transported it to Manhattan by my estimates you'd have to flatten everything between 42nd and 57th streets west of Ninth Avenue to accommodate it. And double-stack access exists in Howland Hook yet nowhere else in the city. Interestingly, containerized shipping also destroyed the port of San Francisco, and like NYC the city also suffered grievously from WFH. |
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