b'8American Journal of Transportation ajot.com(COPINGcontinued fromin step with Augusts records. page 4) Were still down, said Ruda, laborleadershipforthesuc- but I suspect that well make cessfuloperationoftheportup a lot of that in the last sev-during the pandemic. We playeral months of the year. aroleincallingstakeholderThe peak shipping season, meetings, he said. We havenowgettingunderway,is developedgoodcooperationgoing as expected, according amongterminals,truckers,toPoelma.Weexpectthe labor, and employers. next few months to be quite Red Hook Terminal at the Port of New Yorks Brooklyn waterfrontWhen you look at the data, you see an increase Red Hook, Brooklyn: Ideal forinthedeliveriesofhomegoods.SamRuda, PANYNJ port commerce directore-commerce fulfillment Poelmamightthinkthatstrong, he said.too modest of an assessment.Still, the pandemic is far IgiveSamRudaandthefromoverandchallenges By Peter Buxbaum, AJOT Port Authority a lot of creditremain. Even with the record for their leadership through aAugustnumbers,container Thereareacoupleofis located five miles from theout of Port Elizabeth, droppedtough environment, he said.traffic at the port remained at competing trends taking placeVerrazzano-NarrowsBridge,off at night, and sorted, saidWehadweeklycrisisman- a 6.7% deficit for the year.inthewaterfrontneighbor- whichconnectsBrooklynMilanaik, to be distributed theagement calls where best prac- AndtheCOVIDecon-hoodsofBrooklyn,NewwithStatenIsland,and,bynext morning by smaller vehi- ticeswereshared.Withthatomy is still with us. Infections York. Cargo at the Red Hookextension,NewJersey,andcles like vans and Ubers. Mila- kind of collaboration, theresandunemploymentarenow Container Terminal has grownwithin a one-hour drive of 13naik projects the facility willno room for finger pointing. ontheupswing,andschool in recent years, and the com- million consumers. (IDEALcontinued onRudaexpectstheportsclosingsrepresentacontin-panyreneweditsleasewithInbound freight will comepage 19) September numbers to followued drag on the economy. thePortAuthorityin2018. RedHookTerminalsalso signed a long-term lease with NewYorkCitytorevitalize thedormant65-acreSouth Brooklyn Marine Terminal.RedHookandnearby neighborhoods like Williams-burg have also seen an influx ofhigh-earningmillennials. Somerealestatedevelopers covet waterfront property to house the new arrivals.But logistics interests and real estate interests converge on one point: that Red Hook is ideal for setting up e-com-mercefulfillmentcentersto serveurbanneighborhoods. With e-commerce companies racingtomeetdemandfor same-day deliveries, fulfilling orders from New Jersey distri-bution centers will not do.Ifyouveeverdriven acrossManhattan,youve realizedthatitsnotever really a good idea to do, said JeffMilanaik,aprincipalin Bridge Development Partners. Lastyear,theChicago-basedBridge,alongwith theDallas-basedBanner OakCapitalandtheTexas teacherspensionfund,paid $255millionforthe18-acre Sunset Industrial Park, along theGowanusCanalinRed Hook.Twentyolderindus-trial buildings are being torn down, to be replaced by a new four-story 1.4 million-square-foot ramped facility that will enable delivery trucks to load and unload on each floor. The firsttwostorieswillhavea height of 32 feet each, and the upper two stories will be 28 feet each, making the facility as tall as a 12-story building.Thefacilitysunprec-edented design, according to Milanaik, will make it essen-tially,fourseparate,stacked distributioncenters.This facilitywillofferusersthe ultimatelast-mileaccessto New York Citys massive con-sumer base, including those in Williamsburg,LongIsland City, and Manhattan. The site'