
Panama Canal Expansion Paves Way for Largest Ship to Call at New York/New Jersey
The largest ship to ever name on the Port of New York and New Jersey is ready to dock Friday after having simply handed by way of the expanded Panama Canal.
The 10,000 TEU MOL Benefactor will name on the GCT Bayonne container terminal in Bayonne, New Jersey on July 8, kicking off a collection of port calls alongside the U.S. east coast.
The ship turned the primary post-panamax containership to make a industrial transit by way of the Panama Canal’s new neo-panamax locks on July 1, paying a document toll of greater than $829,000 to the Panama Canal Authority for the transit.
MOL Benefactor is deployed on the G6 Alliance’s new NYX service, offering a direct hyperlink between far east Asia and the U.S. East Coast and Latin America. After New York, the vessel will name at Norfolk, Virginia and Savannah, Georgia.
The ports are amongst a number of positioned alongside the U.S. East and Gulf coasts which have invested tens of millions of {dollars} in preparation for the arrival of bigger ships container ships with the opening of the expanded Panama Canal.
The MOL Benefactor was delivered in March 2016 and is 336.96 meters in size by 48.2 meters in beam.