A ‘Blue Highway’ Is Cruising to Hunts Point

A ‘Blue Highway’ Is Cruising to Hunts Point

A new marine freight barge at the country’s largest wholesale fish market could reduce congestion and air pollution.

Hunts Point “Blue Highway” aims to reduce trucking pollution – Bronx Times

City officials have announced plans to build a new marine transportation hub on the East River, across from the Hunts Point Fish Market, to help ease truck traffic in the South Bronx by moving food and goods from the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center by water over what the city has dubbed the "blue highway". The project, which includes a new barge, is expected to launch later this year and could divert up to 1,000 truck trips a month from the…

New Bronx Blue Highway project unveiled

Set to start operating this year, a Blue Highway project in the Bronx, N.Y., will initially remove 1,000 truck trips a month off highways and onto the water. Details of the plan were announced by New York City Deputy Mayor Adolfo Carrion Jr., the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), and Con Agg Global (CAG), which is to open a new waterside transloading facility adjacent to the Fulton Fish Market hub in the Hunts Point Food D…