Loaded with mangoes, bananas, pineapples, and paper products, the Maersk Wakayama - a ship longer than five football fields - docked at the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in South Philadelphia on Wednesday.
Holt brothers Michael, Thomas Jr., and Leo at the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in South Philadelphia, which they run as part of a web of family-owned transport businesses on both sides of the Delaware River. CLEM MURRAY / Staff PhotographerLoaded with mangoes, bananas, pineapples, and paper products, the Maersk Wakayama - a ship 176 yards long - docked at the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in South Philadelphia on Wednesday.
"You're probably looking at 50,000 additional container moves," with 104 vessels arriving each year, exulted Leo Holt, 50, president of Holt Logistics Inc. In three generations, they have built a growing empire on the waterfront. A new 190-acre port facility is rising in Paulsboro on the site of the long-closed British Petroleum refinery.The State of New Jersey . . . tendered the bid for rail improvements, which will be 21,000 feet of track. The pier itself is being constructed. The pylons are being driven. I would say it's on pace for opening in the beginning of 2016.Customers in the steel business are lined up and ready to go.
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