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Wilmington, NC Seaport

Located on the east bank of Cape Fear River the Wilmington port is 26 miles from open sea. The channel is 42 ft. at mean low water. The wharf frontage is 6,768 ft. long, divided between container and general cargo operations.

Construction is concrete pile wharf construction with solid or concrete deck fronted with rubber fender system. The Deck height averages 12 ft. above mean low water. There is an open storage dry bulk facility with a 70,000 ton storage capacity which can out load over 800 tons per hour.

There is a covered dry bulk facility with 2.5 million cubic feet of storage capacity and an import conveyor system for grain and fertilizers which can handle 1,000 tons per hour. There are other berths with contiguous open apron areas up to 300 ft. wide.

The terminal is Well-lighted and 24-hour security provided by North Carolina State Certified Port Police

Foreign Trade Zone.

The entire Wilmington Terminal is designated Foreign Trade Zone 66 and provides for storage, manipulation, exhibition and limited manufacturing operations that can lower, defer or avoid import duties and can accommodate special purpose sub zones.

Equipment.

There are four container cranes, two 40 long ton, two 50 long ton, two gantry cranes, One multi-purpose bridge crane (bulk, breakbulk, container), a neutral chassis pool, 65 lift trucks, nine top lift container handlers, two 30-ton mobile cranes, three truck scales and the weigh master is on duty 24-hours a day.

Staging and Warehousing.

There are over 1 million square feet of covered, full sprinkler storage with both road and rail access to all storage buildings. There are 100 acres of paved, open area and nearly 25 acres of semi-improved open storage area. There is a 31,200 square feet dedicated steel coils warehouse with a 30-ton remote control bridge crane and nearly one-half million square feet of warehouse space dedicated to forest products, including a new 108,000 square feet forest products center.