Florida East Coast Railway has opened an intermodal container transfer facility adjacent to Port Everglades with opening ceremonies earlier this month.
The new intermodal yard will facilitate faster delivery times and create less congested roadways by reducing highway truck volume, reports the American Journal of Transportation.
The 43-acre facility increases FEC's available intermodal capacity from 100,000 to 450,000 lifts a year and the unique, near-dock facility will improve the transfer of both domestic and international containers between ships and rail.
Currently such containers must be trucked off-port to rail terminals such as Andrews Avenue rail yard in Fort Lauderdale or to Hialeah rail yard in Miami-Dade County.
Additionally, having empty 53-footers and trailers adjacent to the port provides transloading for import ocean boxes into domestic containers for inland rail transport.
This results in more domestic containers moving north as loads instead of empties, increasing the efficiency of our intermodal network, said the FEC statement.
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