while it was determined that salem was not an ideal location within the program for handling container shipping for intermodal freight transport, a private sector service provider began in 2010 the short sea shipping of aggregate products with a barge service between salem and tremley point, linden on the arthur kill in the port of new york and new jersey. it addresses a critical missing link in multimodal freight transport between ports in the delaware valley and the northern new jersey's urban gateway region.