Shutdown after fatal accident at US port

The Port of New Jersey is the busiest container port on the US East Coast.

The Global Container Terminal in New Jersey remains closed after one person was killed and another injured as a result of a truck-trailer hitting two people yesterday, according to media reports.

Journal of Commerce.com quoted Joseph Pentangelo, a spokesperson for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, as saying: “It’s a combination of where it happened and the seriousness of it. It’s a fatality and it has to be investigated.”