Creating Jobs

  • The National Gateway will create nearly 54,000 jobs over a 30 year period.
  • Almost 10,000 jobs will be created during the initial construction phase.
  • One half of the jobs created will be located in 14 economically distressed areas.
  • Planned improvements that will create job opportunities include raising bridges, increasing tunnel
  • clearances and building new terminals along existing rail corridors to support the movement of double
  • stacked containers on rail cars