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