Call it short sea shipping. Call it container-on-barge (COB) service. Call it the Marine Highway or whatever you will…..Moran Towing’s Cape Cod runs across the Upper Bay with the barge New Jersey on a morning Port Newark–Red Hook shuttle run. This photo also serves to clearly illustrate why having a corps of well-trained, knowledgeable and experienced career deckhands in the towing industry is a must, not an option. Who the hell do you think is serving as this captain’s eyes for the 180-degree arc of non-visibility to starboard? Yet another good reason to do away with the 30-day Wonder!
For more information check out America’s Marine Highways, as well as this container barge feeder service study from the Connecticut DOT and a Port Inland Distribution Network study for New Jersey.
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