News / Port of Charleston aims to be an intermodal major league player

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The port of Charleston is gunning for a bigger slice of the pie of container traffic moving through US east coast ports.

It broke ground last week on a near-dock intermodal facility seen as a game changer for intermodal flows and next month is set to complete dredging so it can handle post-panamax vessels.

The project to dredge the harbour to a depth of 15.8m, which removes tidal restrictions for fully loaded post-panamax vessels is nearly done. The final part, a 14.6m ...