b'10American Journal ofTransportation ajot.com(GATEScontinued from page 4)to deepen the harbor channels to 50-feet. And in 2019, PANYNJcoupledtheprojectwiththeraisingofthe roadway of the Bayonne Bridge to a navigational height clearance of 215-feet. With the added bridge clearance and deepening, the port began seeing calls of larger box shipsa number of them over 16,000 TEUs. And as Beth Ann Rooney, Port Director for PANYNJ noted at the annual State of the Port presentation, Nearly 70% of the containerized cargo thats coming into the Port of New York and New Jersey today is coming in on a ship that could not fit under the Bayonne Bridge six years ago.And without the added bridge clearance, would APM Terminals have this year inked a 33-year lease extension and agreed to invest $500 million in their 350-acre ter-minal in the Port of NY/NJ? Maybe. But with the raised bridge clearance the decision was much easiera poten-tiality that Seroka is pondering right now. us T erminAlT rendsAlthough the San Pedro Ports of Los Angeles and DP World London Gateway ( Credit: Miru Visuals) Long Beach and other West Coast Ports still remain the primary gateways for containerships into North America, London Gateway: More than a deep-water port,an incremental shift in container volumes to the East Coast and Gulf ports has been underway for nearly a decade an integrated logistics hub and may be accelerating as tariffs, geo-economic trends and geo-political issues are greasing the skids.Amongthoseanalyststhathaveconfidencein By Stuart Todd, AJOT veracity of this trend is John McCown, who publishes a monthly report called the US Top 10 Ports, that tracks Dubai-basedDPWorldhasinjustoveradecadeowners navigate complexity, go to market quicker andin great detail US port performance. When asked during transformed the site of a former oil refinery into the UKsbuild greater supply chain resilience, he added. therecentannualCONECTTransportation&Trade fastest-growing deep-sea container terminal, located onConference, the question is there a long-term trend of the River Thames less than 30 miles from central London. i nvesTmenTd rive [US] container volumes gravitating to one coast versus The London Gateway is a prime example of DPJustoverayearago,DPWorldannounceda1anotherWest Coast versus the East Coast, McCown Worlds strategy to expand beyond its core port termi- billion($1.30billion)expansionofLondonGateway,quicklyrepliedYes,andthedrivingfactorthereis nal mold and offer integrated logistics solutions whichaimed at making it the UKs largest container port withinreally just cost economics. McCown points out, There enhance connectivity and streamline supply chains. five years and taking the groups total investment at theare many reasons why a higher percentage of container In the words of Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, Chair- Thames Estuary location to more than 3 billion. volumesaregraduallyshiftingtotheEastCoastbut man and Group CEO of DP World: Our integrated modelA port of call on some of the main deep-sea oceanundoubtedly the shifting of sourcing to Southeast Asia gives us visibility and control across the entire supplytrades, London Gateway currently handles approximatelyand India, which has accelerated with the de-coupling chain, helping our partners reduce risks and costs. No onenearly 2 million TEU of traffic annually, which includes afrom China.else can offer this breadth of capabilities The groupssubstantial chunk of the UKs containerized reefer cargo. And while the numbers favor the West Coast ports role has morphed to that of trade enablerhelping cargo(MOREcontinued on page 14) (GATEScontinued on page 14)'