FEC opens intermodal facility near Florida's Port Everglades

摘要

Florida East Coast Railway, LLC (FEC), held a ribbon cutting ceremony for its state-of-the-art Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF) adjacent to Port Everglades in Fort Lauder-dale, Fla., on July 14. FEC said the 43-acre facility will act as South Florida's new global gateway. The ICTF increases FEC's available intermodal capacity from 100,000 to 450,000 lifts a year and the near-dock intermodal facil- ity will improve the transfer of both domestic and international containers between ships and rail. FEC said that prior to the ICTF opening, these containers had to be drayed off-port to rail terminals, such as the current 12-acre Andrews Avenue rail yard in Fort Lau-derdale or to Hialeah rail yard in Miami-Dade County.