b'OPPORTUNITY LIVES HEREPORT OF WILMINGTONThe Port of Wilmington is the largest container terminal and the first inbound deep-water port on the Delaware River, 65 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. The port is North Americans top seaport for imports of fresh fruit, bananas, and juice concentrates and is home to North Americans largest dockside cold storage facility. The types of vessels regularly calling at Wilmington are Bulk Carrier (32 percent), Vehicles Carrier (21 percent), Container Ship (7 percent), SAR (3 percent), and Law Enforce (3 percent). 5In 2018, the port was privatized and operations were taken over by GT USA Wilmington. In 2021, GT completed its first phase of an electrification project at the port at a cost of $37 million.The port company is committed to investing up to $600 million at the current port site and in building a new facility at the nearby Edgemoor site on the Delaware River.The Port of Wilmington has long been a center of good-paying jobs in Delaware that stabilize families and the neighborhoods where they live. Creating more of those jobs is central to the economic success of our state, . Delaware Governor John Carney5The Port handles approximately 4,500,000 tons of cargo, 810 Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEU) of containerized cargo, and 500 vessels annually.Delaware Three Rivers Area Economic Development Master Plan 43'