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Port of Philadelphia

February 16, 2024

The Port of Philadelphia is located on the Delaware River in Philadelphia in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

Port of Philadelphia
Location
CountryUnited States
LocationPhiladelphia
Details
Operated byPhiladelphia Regional Port Authority
Owned byPennsylvania
Statistics
Draft depth45 feet
Air draft188 feet, restricted by Delaware Memorial Bridge
143 feet, restricted by Benjamin Franklin Bridge[1]
Website
philaport.com

Generally the term applies to the publicly owned marine terminals located within Philadelphia city limits along west bank of the river. These terminals are managed by the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, PhilaPort,[2] an agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The term is sometimes used for Delaware River port complex to collectively refer to the ports and energy facilities along the river in the tri-state PA-NJ-DE Delaware Valley region. They include the Port of Salem, the Port of Wilmington, the Port of Chester, the Port of Paulsboro, the Port of Philadelphia and the Port of Camden.[3] Combined they create one of the largest shipping areas of the United States. In 2016, 2,427 ships arrived at Delaware River port facilities: Fruit ships were counted at 577, petroleum at 474, and containerized cargo at 431.[4]

PhilaPort (The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority) edit

The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, commonly known as PhilaPort, and referred to as The Port of Philadelphia, is an independent agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania charged with the management, maintenance, marketing, and promotion of port facilities along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, as well as strategic planning throughout the port district. PhilaPort works with its terminal operators to improve its facilities and to market those facilities to prospective port users around the world. Port cargoes and the activities they generate are responsible for thousands of direct and indirect jobs in the Philadelphia area and throughout Pennsylvania.

On May 22, 2017, The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority (PRPA) announced that it was rebranding as PhilaPort (The Port of Philadelphia) effective immediately. The name ‘PhilaPort’ was decided on to distinguish The Port of Philadelphia from the many other regional authorities.[5]

Terminals edit

 
Pier 40 had become self-storage, but closed[6]

The Port consists of a series of marine terminals, each with specialized capabilities.

 
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Port of Philadelphia terminal locations
1
Packer Avenue Marine Terminal
2
Tioga Marine Terminal
3
Pier 82
4
Pier 84
5
Philadelphia Forest Products Center-Piers 78/80
6
Philadelphia Forest Products Center-Piers 38/40
7
Philadelphia Automobile Processing Facility
  • Packer Avenue Marine Terminal: This facility handles containers, steel products, frozen meat, fruit, heavy lift cargo, project cargo, and paper on 6 berths plus 1 Ro/Ro berth at a depth of MLW of 45 feet (14 meters). The 160-acre (1 km2) facility features 90,000-square-foot (8,361 m2) of dry storage and 2,200,000-cubic-foot (62,297 m3) of refrigerated storage with 2,500 reefer plugs.[7]
  • Tioga Marine Terminal: This facility handles containers, specialized forest products, over-dimensional cargo, palletized cargo, project cargo, break-bulk cargo, and steel on 6 berths at a depth of MLW of 36 to 41 feet (11 to 12 meters). The 116-acre (0 km2) facility features 734,500-square-foot (68,237 m2) of dry storage, of which 90,000-square-foot (8,361 m2) is refrigerated storage with 116 reefer plugs.[8]
  • Pier 82: This facility handles fruits and vegetables, break-bulk cargo, project cargo, and paper on 2 berths at a depth of MLW of 32 feet (9.8 meters). The 13.3-acre (0 km2) facility features 130,000-square-foot (12,077 m2) of dry, temperature-controlled storage.[9]
  • Pier 84: This facility is dedicated exclusively to cocoa beans and other cocoa products on 1 berth at a depth of MLW of 32 feet (9.8 meters). The 13.9-acre (0 km2) facility features 540,000-square-foot (50,168 m2) of dry storage.[10]
  • Philadelphia Forest Products Center: This facility at piers 38, 40, 78, and 80 handles newsprint, coated paper, wood pulp, other forest products, other break-bulk, and semi-bulk products on 2 berths plus 2 Ro/Ro berths at a depth of MLW of 32 feet (9.8 meters). The 44.4-acre (0 km2) facility features 1,143,000-square-foot (106,188 m2) of dry storage.[11]
  • Philadelphia Automobile Processing Facility: This facility handles automobiles, project cargo, trucks, and heavy equipment just offshore with immediate access to Packer Avenue Marine Terminal and Pier 96. The 84.2-acre (0 km2) facility features an auto-washing and auto service building.[12]

Shipyard edit

Hog Island was once the largest shipyard in the nation. In 1917, as part of the World War I effort, the US government contracted American International Shipbuilding to build ships and a shipyard at Hog Island. At the time Hog Island was the largest shipyard in the world, with 50 slipways. The first ship (named SS Quistconck for the Lenape name for the site) was christened August 5, 1918, by Edith Bolling Wilson, wife of US president Woodrow Wilson.[13]

The Philly Shipyard is a private company operating on what was once the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.

Development in the 2000s edit

Delaware River Main Channel Deepening
A project to deepen the Delaware River's 103-mile main shipping channel from 40 to 45 feet began in 2010 and was completed in 2017. The $392 million project was funded by the Federal Government and local-match sponsor PhilaPort (using Commonwealth of Pennsylvania general funds).[14]
Infrastructure Upgrade
A $300 million Port Development Plan was announced by the Commonwealth in November 2016, which will expand and improve cargo operations throughout the Port's busiest areas.[15] As part of the $300 million Port Development Plan, the first two of five giant cranes capable of unloading the largest container ships arrived in March 2018 from China, where they were manufactured.[16]
Southport Marine Terminal

An expansion of port facilities at Philadelphia Naval Yard.[17]

New Leadership
In August 2016 PhilaPort's Board of Directors hired Jeff Theobald, a maritime industry professional with more than 40 years of experience in terminal operations and shipping logistics, as its new executive director and CEO, to further professionalize the port's operations.

History edit

 
WPA poster depicting the port in the 1930s
 
The SS United States, holder of the Blue Riband, is berthed at Pier 82

The Port of Philadelphia was established more than 300 years ago during the colonial period, and was for a time the busiest port in both that period and the earliest years of the new republic, finally being eclipsed by the Port of New York. In much of the 20th Century, the Port was overseen by the city's Department of Wharves, Docks, and Ferries, which was replaced by the quasi-public Philadelphia Port Corporation in 1964.

In 1989, following the lead of other municipal ports that made overtures to their respective state governments for capital and operating support, the Port of Philadelphia moved from city to state control, with a new agency, the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, established by the State Legislature's Act 50 of 1989 to run the Port. The Port of Philadelphia has always been a landlord port, with private companies being given leases to run the Port's facilities, with capital and marketing support provided by the Commonwealth and PRPA.[18][19]

Philadelphia Cruise Terminal edit

The Philadelphia Cruise Terminal was located at 5100 South Broad Street within the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. The Delaware River Port Authority began operating the terminal in 1998 in Building 3, a landmarked 1874 Navy Yard building.[20] Following the September 11 attacks the Philadelphia terminal accommodated some of the ships that had been diverted from New York. Its peak year was 2006 when it handled 36 cruises. By 2011 the schedule had dwindled to just two cruises. The DRPA decided to close the terminal rather than invest additional operating costs or capital improvements. Its demise was attributed to a combination of the economic downturn, increasing size of cruise ships, and six hours needed to navigate the Delaware River before entering open ocean.[21]

See also edit

 
Philadelphia and Camden waterfront

References edit

  1. ^ "Bridges and Cables" (PDF). Moran Shipping. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Home". Philadelphia Regional Port Authority. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  3. ^ "Port of Philadelphia Technical Memorandum - Summary of Existing Conditions" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
  4. ^ "Delaware River ship arrivals finish 2016 strong" (PDF). The Beacon. Philadelphia, PA: Maritime Exchange. Winter 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  5. ^ "It's a Brand New Day at PhilaPort » PRPA Rebrands". PhilaPort. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
  6. ^ "People left scrambling after Pier 40 Self Storage announces closure". FOX29. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
  7. ^ "Packer Avenue Marine Terminal". PhilaPort. October 16, 2020.
  8. ^ "Tioga Marine Terminal". PhilaPort. October 19, 2020.
  9. ^ "Pier 82". PhilaPort. October 19, 2020.
  10. ^ "Pier 84". PhilaPort. October 19, 2020.
  11. ^ "Philadelphia Forest Products Center". PhilaPort. October 19, 2020.
  12. ^ "Philadelphia Automobile Processing Facility". PhilaPort. October 19, 2020.
  13. ^ Worcester, Kimball. "The Great War's Largest Shipyard: Hog Island, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania". roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  14. ^ "Main Channel Deepening". Philadelphia Regional Port Authority. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  15. ^ "Port Development Plan". Philadelphia Regional Port Authority. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  16. ^ Maykuth, Andrew (March 24, 2018). "Giant cranes from China arrive at PhilaPort, signaling a new era". Philly.com. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
  17. ^ Adomaitis, Greg (November 5, 2015). "Delaware River port project to bring hundreds, or thousands, of jobs". NJ.coms. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
  18. ^ "History of PRPA". Philadelphia Regional Port Authority. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  19. ^ Brown, Peter Hendee Brown (2009), America's Waterfront Revival: Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment, Chapter 5: Philadelphia and Camden, University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 9780812241228
  20. ^ "Philadelphia Cruise Terminal". Philadelphiacruiseguide.com. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
  21. ^ . 5 January 2011. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2020.

External links edit

  • 2016 Philadelphia Regional Port Authority Advertorial
  • Philadelphia Regional Port Authority - Official website
  • Port of Philadelphia facilities
  • History of the Port of Philadelphia

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February 16, 2024
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The Port of Philadelphia is located on the Delaware River in Philadelphia in the U S state of Pennsylvania Port of PhiladelphiaLocationCountryUnited StatesLocationPhiladelphiaDetailsOperated byPhiladelphia Regional Port AuthorityOwned byPennsylvaniaStatisticsDraft depth45 feetAir draft188 feet restricted by Delaware Memorial Bridge143 feet restricted by Benjamin Franklin Bridge 1 Websitephilaport comGenerally the term applies to the publicly owned marine terminals located within Philadelphia city limits along west bank of the river These terminals are managed by the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority PhilaPort 2 an agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania The term is sometimes used for Delaware River port complex to collectively refer to the ports and energy facilities along the river in the tri state PA NJ DE Delaware Valley region They include the Port of Salem the Port of Wilmington the Port of Chester the Port of Paulsboro the Port of Philadelphia and the Port of Camden 3 Combined they create one of the largest shipping areas of the United States In 2016 2 427 ships arrived at Delaware River port facilities Fruit ships were counted at 577 petroleum at 474 and containerized cargo at 431 4 Contents 1 PhilaPort The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority 2 Terminals 3 Shipyard 4 Development in the 2000s 5 History 5 1 Philadelphia Cruise Terminal 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksPhilaPort The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority editThe Philadelphia Regional Port Authority commonly known as PhilaPort and referred to as The Port of Philadelphia is an independent agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania charged with the management maintenance marketing and promotion of port facilities along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania as well as strategic planning throughout the port district PhilaPort works with its terminal operators to improve its facilities and to market those facilities to prospective port users around the world Port cargoes and the activities they generate are responsible for thousands of direct and indirect jobs in the Philadelphia area and throughout Pennsylvania On May 22 2017 The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority PRPA announced that it was rebranding as PhilaPort The Port of Philadelphia effective immediately The name PhilaPort was decided on to distinguish The Port of Philadelphia from the many other regional authorities 5 Terminals edit nbsp Pier 40 had become self storage but closed 6 The Port consists of a series of marine terminals each with specialized capabilities nbsp fullscreen map Port of Philadelphia terminal locations1 Packer Avenue Marine Terminal2 Tioga Marine Terminal3 Pier 824 Pier 845 Philadelphia Forest Products Center Piers 78 806 Philadelphia Forest Products Center Piers 38 407 Philadelphia Automobile Processing Facility Packer Avenue Marine Terminal This facility handles containers steel products frozen meat fruit heavy lift cargo project cargo and paper on 6 berths plus 1 Ro Ro berth at a depth of MLW of 45 feet 14 meters The 160 acre 1 km2 facility features 90 000 square foot 8 361 m2 of dry storage and 2 200 000 cubic foot 62 297 m3 of refrigerated storage with 2 500 reefer plugs 7 Tioga Marine Terminal This facility handles containers specialized forest products over dimensional cargo palletized cargo project cargo break bulk cargo and steel on 6 berths at a depth of MLW of 36 to 41 feet 11 to 12 meters The 116 acre 0 km2 facility features 734 500 square foot 68 237 m2 of dry storage of which 90 000 square foot 8 361 m2 is refrigerated storage with 116 reefer plugs 8 Pier 82 This facility handles fruits and vegetables break bulk cargo project cargo and paper on 2 berths at a depth of MLW of 32 feet 9 8 meters The 13 3 acre 0 km2 facility features 130 000 square foot 12 077 m2 of dry temperature controlled storage 9 Pier 84 This facility is dedicated exclusively to cocoa beans and other cocoa products on 1 berth at a depth of MLW of 32 feet 9 8 meters The 13 9 acre 0 km2 facility features 540 000 square foot 50 168 m2 of dry storage 10 Philadelphia Forest Products Center This facility at piers 38 40 78 and 80 handles newsprint coated paper wood pulp other forest products other break bulk and semi bulk products on 2 berths plus 2 Ro Ro berths at a depth of MLW of 32 feet 9 8 meters The 44 4 acre 0 km2 facility features 1 143 000 square foot 106 188 m2 of dry storage 11 Philadelphia Automobile Processing Facility This facility handles automobiles project cargo trucks and heavy equipment just offshore with immediate access to Packer Avenue Marine Terminal and Pier 96 The 84 2 acre 0 km2 facility features an auto washing and auto service building 12 Shipyard editHog Island was once the largest shipyard in the nation In 1917 as part of the World War I effort the US government contracted American International Shipbuilding to build ships and a shipyard at Hog Island At the time Hog Island was the largest shipyard in the world with 50 slipways The first ship named SS Quistconck for the Lenape name for the site was christened August 5 1918 by Edith Bolling Wilson wife of US president Woodrow Wilson 13 The Philly Shipyard is a private company operating on what was once the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Development in the 2000s editDelaware River Main Channel Deepening A project to deepen the Delaware River s 103 mile main shipping channel from 40 to 45 feet began in 2010 and was completed in 2017 The 392 million project was funded by the Federal Government and local match sponsor PhilaPort using Commonwealth of Pennsylvania general funds 14 Infrastructure Upgrade A 300 million Port Development Plan was announced by the Commonwealth in November 2016 which will expand and improve cargo operations throughout the Port s busiest areas 15 As part of the 300 million Port Development Plan the first two of five giant cranes capable of unloading the largest container ships arrived in March 2018 from China where they were manufactured 16 Southport Marine TerminalAn expansion of port facilities at Philadelphia Naval Yard 17 New Leadership In August 2016 PhilaPort s Board of Directors hired Jeff Theobald a maritime industry professional with more than 40 years of experience in terminal operations and shipping logistics as its new executive director and CEO to further professionalize the port s operations History edit nbsp WPA poster depicting the port in the 1930s nbsp The SS United States holder of the Blue Riband is berthed at Pier 82The Port of Philadelphia was established more than 300 years ago during the colonial period and was for a time the busiest port in both that period and the earliest years of the new republic finally being eclipsed by the Port of New York In much of the 20th Century the Port was overseen by the city s Department of Wharves Docks and Ferries which was replaced by the quasi public Philadelphia Port Corporation in 1964 In 1989 following the lead of other municipal ports that made overtures to their respective state governments for capital and operating support the Port of Philadelphia moved from city to state control with a new agency the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority established by the State Legislature s Act 50 of 1989 to run the Port The Port of Philadelphia has always been a landlord port with private companies being given leases to run the Port s facilities with capital and marketing support provided by the Commonwealth and PRPA 18 19 Philadelphia Cruise Terminal edit The Philadelphia Cruise Terminal was located at 5100 South Broad Street within the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard The Delaware River Port Authority began operating the terminal in 1998 in Building 3 a landmarked 1874 Navy Yard building 20 Following the September 11 attacks the Philadelphia terminal accommodated some of the ships that had been diverted from New York Its peak year was 2006 when it handled 36 cruises By 2011 the schedule had dwindled to just two cruises The DRPA decided to close the terminal rather than invest additional operating costs or capital improvements Its demise was attributed to a combination of the economic downturn increasing size of cruise ships and six hours needed to navigate the Delaware River before entering open ocean 21 See also edit nbsp Philadelphia and Camden waterfrontPort of Camden across the Delaware Port of Paulsboro Port of Wilmington Delaware Philadelphia Naval Shipyard located to the southwest along the Delaware River Philadelphia International Airport located to the southwest along the Delaware RiverReferences edit Bridges and Cables PDF Moran Shipping Retrieved 3 April 2019 Home Philadelphia Regional Port Authority Retrieved 2017 01 30 Port of Philadelphia Technical Memorandum Summary of Existing Conditions PDF Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Retrieved April 24 2019 Delaware River ship arrivals finish 2016 strong PDF The Beacon Philadelphia PA Maritime Exchange Winter 2017 Retrieved 11 June 2019 It s a Brand New Day at PhilaPort PRPA Rebrands PhilaPort Retrieved 2017 05 31 People left scrambling after Pier 40 Self Storage announces closure FOX29 Retrieved April 24 2019 Packer Avenue Marine Terminal PhilaPort October 16 2020 Tioga Marine Terminal PhilaPort October 19 2020 Pier 82 PhilaPort October 19 2020 Pier 84 PhilaPort October 19 2020 Philadelphia Forest Products Center PhilaPort October 19 2020 Philadelphia Automobile Processing Facility PhilaPort October 19 2020 Worcester Kimball The Great War s Largest Shipyard Hog Island Philadelphia Pennsylvania roadstothegreatwar ww1 blogspot com Retrieved 4 October 2018 Main Channel Deepening Philadelphia Regional Port Authority Retrieved 2017 01 30 Port Development Plan Philadelphia Regional Port Authority Retrieved 2017 01 30 Maykuth Andrew March 24 2018 Giant cranes from China arrive at PhilaPort signaling a new era Philly com Retrieved April 24 2019 Adomaitis Greg November 5 2015 Delaware River port project to bring hundreds or thousands of jobs NJ coms Retrieved April 24 2019 History of PRPA Philadelphia Regional Port Authority Retrieved 2017 01 30 Brown Peter Hendee Brown 2009 America s Waterfront Revival Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment Chapter 5 Philadelphia and Camden University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN 9780812241228 Philadelphia Cruise Terminal Philadelphiacruiseguide com Retrieved March 29 2019 Delaware River Board Closes Philadelphia Cruise Terminal 5 January 2011 Archived from the original on 30 March 2019 Retrieved 21 November 2020 External links edit2016 Philadelphia Regional Port Authority Advertorial Philadelphia Regional Port Authority Official website Port of Philadelphia facilities History of the Port of Philadelphia39 55 6 1 N 75 8 11 8 W 39 918361 N 75 136611 W 39 918361 75 136611 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Port of Philadelphia amp oldid 1183578512, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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