Nyc-area Ports Stare Down Sizeable Challenge Of Modernizing

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — From ultra-thin laptops to drones to smartphones, the shelves of big-box retailers overflow with gadgets to help us communicate and conduct business at greater and greater speeds. Once arrived, it can take nine days for the 20-foot cargo container carrying them to be unloaded; stacked; picked up by a truck, barge or train; and taken to a warehouse for distribution to stores. "Once we start getting those 14,000-container ships, and possibly larger, we're going to have to do it differently," said Molly Campbell, director of port commerce for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Because of the enormity of just trying to move out the goods, we have to find a different way to do it, and it's more than simply saying, 'I'm going to raise the bridge' or 'I'm going to bring in more rail' or 'bring in more trucks.' When computer glitches at one of the New Jersey terminals caused backups in summer 2013, one retailer had 21 containers worth $2 million apiece stuck at the port, while another had 1.6 million boxes of back-to-school items that were delayed by weeks, according to the National Retail Federation, an industry advocacy group.

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