Jim Fair
The entrance to the Inland Port on Hwy. 29/East Poinsett Street was closed over the weekend. Trucks are temporarily steered to Dobson Shed Road.
Jim Fair
This cement truck didn't heed the warnings at the railroad crossing from East Poinsett Street onto Moore Street.
Jim Fair
The truck had to be carefully removed from the railroad crossing so the tracks serving the Inland Port were not damaged. A Norfolk Southern representative observed the truck's removal.
Jim Fair
GSP Logistics Parkway has been paved to the port's entrance from J. Verne Smith Parkway/Hwy. 80. The road is expected to begin servicing the inland port by next Monday.
All traffic entering the port is being rerouted to Dobson Shed Road, off of Hwy. 80. That is short term until GSP Logistics Parkway is completed with signage and landscaping.
Only contractor trucks were coming into the port Monday. A cement truck had to be removed from the railroad crossing off East Poinsett Street onto Moore Street when it couldn’t negotiate the steep decline. Signage clearly warned trucks away from coming across the tracks.
The South Carolina Port Authority on Friday announced there would be a one-week delay in handling cargo. That is scheduled to begin Monday, Oct. 21.
The rubber-tiered gantry cranes have undergone tests the past two weeks. “The testing of the cranes did very well,” Jack Ellenberg, “Closing the entrance on Hwy. 290 is important to the fast and short lines of the railroad.”
Norfolk Southern’s mainline has a spur that feeds container cargo into the port and there is an additional 5,200-feet of storage tracks.
Signage has been posted on I-85 directing inland port traffic to Brockman McClimon highway. The Department of Transportation will post signage on highways 101 and 80 and the City of Greer will then post signs signaling trucks are prohibited within downtown Greer and gateways into the city.