Port expansions won't mean a thing if there isn't a chassis pool to match it.

It all has to work or nothing will work.

September 21, 2015
By Joseph Bonney
 
Organizers of a planned universal pool (click here) of interchangeable chassis at the Port of New York and New Jersey say they’re moving closer to completing a devilishly complex job that’s dragged on for more than a year.

"We are definitely making progress, and there certainly is a will to get this done. Everyone recognizes the importance of it,” said John Nardi, president of the New York Shipping Association.
Nardi wouldn’t predict when the planned port-wide “gray” pool might be launched. Keith Lovetro, CEO of TRAC Intermodal, which controls two-thirds of the port’s approximately 30,000 chassis, said it could begin operation in the first quarter of 2016.
The original goal was in the second quarter of 2015. That target was missed, extended, and missed again as industry factions bickered over how the pool would be structured, who would manage it, how to preserve competition, and myriad other issues....