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Great Lakes Shipyard Delivers Bridge Pontoon To New York New Jersey Rail for Brooklyn, NY to Jersey City Water-Rail
Cleveland, OH - Great Lakes Shipyard, a division of The Great Lakes Group, announced today that it had fabricated and delivered a "bridge pontoon" to New York New Jersey Rail LLC (“NYNJR”), New York City’s only rail car float business serving the New York-New Jersey Region. The bridge pontoon is a unique maritime rail component of New York New Jersey Rail’s infrastructure rehabilitation program, and acts as a floatation chamber to support an active rail bridge located on the Brooklyn, New York waterfront.
The bridge pontoon was constructed at Great Lakes Shipyard’s new state-of-the-art facilities on the South Bank of the Old River Channel in two (2) modules and was transported by truck to the Cleveland-Cuyahoga Port Authority docks where it was loaded onto a train for delivery to Brooklyn, NY.
NYNJR is part of the national transportation rail system and moves rail freight by rail barge across NY Harbor between Brooklyn, New York and Jersey City, New Jersey. NYNJR carries a wide range of goods to include Food & Consumer goods, Recyclables, Building Materials, Scrap, Brick, Lumber, Plastic, and Large Steel Beams.
As part of an infrastructure rehabilitation program, NYNJR selected Great Lakes Shipyard to construct the "bridge pontoon”. NYNJR Managing Director James Cornell said “After a thorough source selection process, only Great Lakes Shipyard, a new state-of-the art fabrication facility, was able to manufacture and deliver this critical replacement for our infrastructure in record time and to our satisfaction. We look forward to the new floatation chambers deployment and sea-trials to test the durability of this design. One of our top priorities has been the rehabilitation of this important and unique marine rail route and increase the reliability and safety of our operation for our trans-harbor railcar freight operations in the Ports of New York and New Jersey.”
The Great Lakes Group of transportation companies have been in Cleveland since the turn of the 19th century. Recently, the Cleveland-based Company decided to build a new fabrication and repair facility for the construction of unique custom-designed sectional and truckable barge units such as the bridge pontoon, and for tugboat construction.
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