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4/12/2021
The South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) on April 9 marked the arrival of the first vessel to the Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal, the first container terminal to open in the United States since 2009.
The terminal's operations launched March 30 with the arrival of the first container, followed by the arrival of the Hapag Lloyd's Yorktown Express last week.
The Leatherman terminal sits along the Cooper River in North Charleston, South Carolina, near Charleston Harbor. Its 1,400-foot berth can handle big ships and provides much needed capacity to the East Coast, SCPA officials said in a press release.
The $1 billion investment to build the terminal's first phase is among the state's biggest and most significant economic development projects to date, they said.
At full buildout, the $2 billion Leatherman Terminal will have three berths and 286 acres, adding 2.4 million 20-foot equivalent units of annual throughput capacity, doubling current capacity.
Palmetto Railways supports the new terminal.