1834: The Port of Camden is established.
1926: Creation of the South Jersey Port District by the New Jersey State Legislature and touches off an explosion of growth that establishes the City of Camden as a world-class port.
1928: The South Jersey Port Commission begins operations at the "Camden Marine Terminals."
1931: The Beckett Street Terminal opens.
1965: The Port of Camden handles a record breaking 424,173 tons, including 152,742,777 board feet of lumber.
1965: Two 25-ton capacity whirly gantry cranes are purchased and steel coils begin to arrive at the port.
1966: Ground is broken for a new 500-foot wharf at the Beckett Street Terminal.
1968: New Jersey State Legislature changes the South Jersey Port Commission to become the South Jersey Port Corporation (SJPC).
1971: The New York Shipbuilding Corporation site is opened as the Broadway Terminal operated by the South Jersey Port Corporation.
1972: SJPC participates in its first New Jersey World Trade Conference and begins handling humanitarian cargo for the CARE program.
1979: The Port of Camden becomes the second largest lumber port on the East Coast of the U.S.
1983: SJPC ranks among the top 10 percent of ports worldwide, and continues to grow, completing a $14.5 million expansion at the Beckett Street Terminal.
1986: Mainland China calls on the Port of Camden for the first time in 40 years, with a ship laden with hardboard.
1989: Del Monte Fresh Fruit begins operations at the Broadway Terminal, making Camden their largest distribution center in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic U.S. regions.
1991: SJPC handles a record breaking 1,000,000 tons of export scrap metal.
1992: A $6 million dredging project, jointly funded by the U.S. Corps of Engineers and the Delaware River Port Authority, deepens the access channel to 40 feet from the main river channel to the Beckett Street Terminal.
1994: The 25th anniversary of the South Jersey Port Corporation culminates in the construction of a new berth at the Beckett Street Terminal and an agreement is finalized for SJPC to oversee the Port of Salem.
1999: SJPC and Del Monte Fresh Fruit complete construction of a 76,500 S.F. temperature controlled warehouse, more than doubling the Port's fruit handling capacity and enabling growth to rise over 520,000 tons of import fresh fruits annually.
2000: SJPC and the St. Lawrence Cement Company commence a 45-year lease bringing $60 million in private investment to the City of Camden and the potential for 1 million tons of import cargo annually.
2001: The Port of Camden handles more than 2.3 million tons of cargo for the year, making it the second highest tonnage year in Port history.
News Highlights
Job Posting - General Maintenance Foreman
7/12/2010 SJPC is accepting resumes from candidates for a full-time maintenance foreman position. Candidates should have 10 years of a broad range of experience and training in roofing, electrical, carpentry, plumbing/fire sprinkler systems and supervision.
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4/16/2010 SJPC is now on Twitter. Sign up to keep up to date on the activities and news of Southern New Jersey's International Seaports.
2010 SJPC Board of Directors Meeting Schedule
1/5/2010 The 2010 South Jersey Port Corporation Board of Directors Regular Meeting Schedule
Construction to Begin at Port of Paulsboro
The project is lauded as an Economic Engine for the Region
9/22/2009 (Paulsboro, NJ) – Ground was broken today to begin construction on the Port of Paulsboro, a deep water port that will be built on 190 acres along the Delaware River. The project will create thousands of jobs and spur economic growth in Gloucester County and in the South Jersey region.
Paulsboro Marine Terminal Project Environmental Impact Statement
9/14/2009 The South Jersey Port Corporation’s Paulsboro Marine Terminal Project approved EO No. 215 Environmental Impact Statement.
SJPC approves measures to move the Paulsboro Marine Terminal project
7/28/2009 To create thousands of new jobs and spur economic growth in South Jersey during the worse Recession since the Great Depression, the directors of the South Jersey Port Corporation today approved agreements for the funding, design and project management and development of the $274 million omni-port in Paulsboro, New Jersey.
TWIC IS MANDATORY!
Notice to all truck drivers, port workers and visitors.
10/30/2008 The South Jersey Port Corporation and all other Delaware River ports are scheduled to begin enforcing the use of Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) card at all port terminals on the December 30, 2008.
New Tariff Rates Announced
Effective October 1, 2009
10/12/2009 Port of Philadelphia Marine Terminal Association, Inc. has announced new tariff rates which will become effective October 1, 2009. See enclosure
SJPC bond financing for Paulsboro, Camden projects and Debt Reserve Fund
10/28/2008 The South Jersey Port Corporation (SJPC) today put in place financing to continue development of the Paulsboro Marine Terminal and fund important improvements at facilities of the Port of Camden, and to assure the long-term financial well being of the agency by increasing debt reserve.
SJPC joins DRPA and PRPA in Green Ports Initiative
5/5/2008 Camden, May 5, 2008 – The Camden/Philadelphia region’s three principal Delaware River agencies announced today they have agreed to work together to develop projects and programs to benefit the environment and reduce environmental impacts at the Port of Camden and the Port of Philadelphia as well as at new port developments like the planned Port of Paulsboro.
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