Up to 1,500 more jobs are expected at a planned New Jersey Wind Port on the Delaware Bay in Salem County, he added. The port in Lower Alloways Creek, with an estimated price tag of up to $400 million, would support staging, assembly and manufacturing activities related to offshore wind projects. The impact of the offshore industry on our state will be huge, Murphy predicted.
Construction of the Paulsboro facility is to start next month, with production to begin in 2023, according to Murphy s office.
Jobs at the waterfront factory will be overwhelmingly union, the governor noted.
The Paulsboro project also will produce hundreds of union construction jobs, said Rep. Donald Norcross, D-Camden.