The Bayonne Bridge’s 151-foot vertical clearance limits the height of ships that can all other terminals in New Jersey or on Staten Island, New York. The estimated completion of a complex $1.3 billion project to raise the bridge’s clearance to 215 feet has been pushed back to late 2017.
Heavy volume has been causing long delays for trucks at the only major New York-New Jersey container terminal accessible to ships that are too tall to squeeze under the Bayonne Bridge.
Truckers have complained of turn times of up to eight hours this week at the GCT Bayonne terminal, which has been dealing with volume from large ships, some of them arriving off schedule. … The estimated completion of a complex $1.3 billion project to raise the bridge’s clearance to 215 feet has been pushed back to late 2017.