Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Florida East Coast Railway opens transfer station at Port Everglades
Florida East Coast Railway opened a new, high-tech intermodal container transfer station at Port Everglades.
The 43-acre Intermodal Container Transfer Facility will allow the FEC to increase its capacity from 100,000 to 450,000 lifts a year because the near-dock facility will improve the transfer of containers between ship and rail.
Facilitating faster delivery times, the ICTF will move cargo through Port Everglades to or from Atlanta and Charlotte in two days, and to or from Nashville and Memphis in three. FEC connects to Class 1 railroads CSX and Norfolk Southern, which means cargo via rail to 70 percent of the U.S. can arrive within four days.
"Additionally, having empty 53-foot domestic containers and trailers adjacent to the port provides more opportunities to trans-load import cargo from ocean containers to domestic containers for inland rail transport," the FEC said in a statement. "This results in more domestic containers moving north as loads instead of empties, increasing the efficiency of our intermodal network."
For more of the CBS Miami story: miami.cbslocal.com
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