Shipping channel

Route 291 is known as the Industrial Heritage Highway

CSX Philadelphia Subdivision at Chester

In the "project of 1885" the U.S. government undertook systematically the formation of a 26-foot (7.9 m) shipping channel 600 feet (180 m) wide from Philadelphia to deep water in Delaware Bay. The River and Harbor Act of 1899 provided for a 30-foot (9.1 m) channel 600 feet (180 m) wide from Philadelphia to the deep water of the bay.^[3]

Since 1941, the Delaware River Main Channel was maintained at a depth of 40 ft (12 m). A 102.5-mile stretch of this federal navigation channel, from Port of Philadelphia and Port of Camden to the mouth of the Delaware Bay, was deepened to 45 ft (14 m), which was completed in 2017.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Navigational aids

The Marcus Hook Range Lights are range lights downstream of the port; Tinicum Island Range Lights are upstream of it. Additional navigational aids are located along the shore.^[10][11]

Roads

Pennsylvania Route 291 parallels the river and is known as the Industrial Heritage Highway.^[12]

The Commodore Barry Bridge carries U.S. Route 322. U.S. Route 13 also runs through Chester. Interstate 95 and Interstate 476 are nearby and intersect at Crum Lynne.

Rail service

Rail service to the port is within Conrail's South Jersey/Philadelphia Shared Assets Area, based at Pavonia Yard over Delair Bridge, the most downstream railroad bridge, crossing the Delaware at Pennsauken, New Jersey.^[13][14] The Stoney Creek Secondary parallels the port and has on site spurs. Norfolk Southern Railway (with connecting BNSF Railway service) and CSX Transportation Philadelphia Subdivision are also active.

The Wilmington/Newark Line, originally built by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, is a commuter rail line is one of the 13 lines in SEPTA's SEPTA Regional Rail network.

Maritime, water, energy and industrial

Kimberly-Clark at confluence of Chester Creek and the Delaware River

• DELCORA (Delaware County Regional Water Authority) wastewater treatment facility^[15]
• Covanta Energy Delaware Valley Resource Recovery Facility^[16]
• Evonik Degussa
• GWSI Warehousng^[17]
• River Bridge Industrial Center
• Kimberly-Clark^[18][19]
• Chester Water Authority^[20]
• Penn Terminals 80 Acres (32 hectares)^{[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]}
• Barry Callebaut
• Exelon Eddystone Generating Station^[30]
• Boeing (formerly Boeing Rotorcraft Systems, now part of Boeing Defense, Space & Security)

Commercial, tourism and recreation

• Wharf at Rivertown^[31]
• Subaru Park is an American soccer-specific stadium is home to the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer.^[32] The project is the result of combined commitments of $30 million from Delaware County and $47 million from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Talen Energy is the stadium's naming rights sponsor.
• Harrah's Philadelphia was built on the site of the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company.
• East Coast Greenway runs along the shore.