Proposed Container Traffic and Job Creation Opportunity
In support of their land purchase and the proposed construction, the NCSPA had stated that there are currently few ports on the U.S. East Coast that can offer the deep draft conditions and large container terminals that will be required in the future. New locks and channels are now under construction in the Panama Canal, with completion scheduled for 2014, allowing for much larger "post-Panamax" containerships to transit the canal. At that point, many containers that are now transiting the Pacific and unloading at west coast ports and moving via rail to points east will move more economically to east coast ports through the canal. The NCSPA had proposed that the port capitalize on this new container growth and provide new job opportunities for the region and the state.
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