Deepwater port in Jasper on target

Plans for a deepwater container terminal in Jasper County remain on schedule for a projected 2025 opening, the McClathy-Tribune Regional News reported.

"I think we can make 2025, but everything has to fall into place," said David Sanborn of the California-based design engineering firm Moffatt and Nichol.

The East Coast's newest container port, to be built on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River, will feature 10 berths, a turning basin and road and rail infrastructure on approximately 1,000 to 1,100 acres of the 1,500-acre site in Jasper County.

When completely built out, the Jasper terminal will have a capacity of seven million TEUs.

In the first of four phases, expected to be complete in 2025, the terminal will have two berths, six to eight ship-to-shore cranes, rubber-tire gantry cranes to work the container stacks and a small, two-track intermodal yard.

It will be capable of handling between 1.2 million and 1.4 million boxes.
(source:www.cargonewsasia.com)