A new floating freight facility will open at the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center in a matter of weeks. That's one small step for boats. The city's "blue highway" dreams of maritime freight transportation took another step forward on Tuesday with the news that a floating freight facility will open at the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center in a matter of weeks.
Bronx-based company Con Agg Global will open the new dock with a focus on distributing food from the massive south Bronx market to elsewhere in the five boroughs via the city's many waterways, the company said in a joint announcement with the city's Economic Development Corporation.
Replacing truck trips with boat trips — and cargo bikes — is a key feature of the city's urgent push to shift cargo trips out of big trucks. The new freight dock at Hunts Point will take one thousand trucks per month off the road in the south Bronx once it's operational, EDC officials said.
