Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal

Elizabeth showed that container shipping needed a new kind of port: large paved yards, rail and highway links, and berths for container cranes, rather than narrow piers built for loose cargo. Malcom McLean's Sea-Land was its anchor user, and the site sits next to Port Newark, where the Ideal X sailed in 1956. Together they form the main container complex of the Port of New York and New Jersey, the busiest container gateway on the U.S. East Coast. Brands importing into the Northeast still pay drayage, chassis and demurrage costs shaped by how this complex handles congestion and free time.

• DrayageTrucking containers from port to warehouse
• DemurrageFee for a container left at the port too long
• Free TimeDays allowed before port fees start

• Malcom McLean1913–2001 · Father of containerization

• Ideal X First Container Voyage1956 · The first commercially successful container ship sails
• First Dockside Container Crane1959 · A Matson crane lifts containers at high speed
• Sea-Land Transatlantic Container Service1966 · Regular container service opens to Europe

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