The Feb. 11 arrival of the OOCL Iris at Maher Terminals marked a significant milestone for the Port of New York and New Jersey. The 16,828 TEU vessel is the largest ship to call on the Port of New York and New Jersey to date, unseating the 16,022-TEU CMA CGM Marco Polo, which arrived on May 20, 2021. A small ceremony was held to celebrate the arrival of Iris and commemorate the milestone. The new container vessel operated by Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) traveled from Asia on the 91-day roundtrip Trans-Pacific ECX1 loop, which stops in Hong Kong, Yantian, Xiamen, and Shanghai before arrivingRead More →

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The leadership team at the Port of New York and New Jersey will be attending the TPM25 Conference at the convention center in Long Beach, CA., March 2-5. The global conference, where the Port of New York and New Jersey is a Silver Sponsor, brings together cargo owners, shippers, and BCOs with international logistics service providers, including ocean carriers, ocean and air forwarders, third-party logistics, marine terminals, ports, truckers, railroads, and banks. This year’s theme—Finding Reliability in an Unreliable World—focuses on the industry’s uncertain future under a new government, the potential impacts on containerized trade, and how shippers and other market participants can prepare forRead More →

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In the shipping world, 2024 taught leaders to expect not just the unexpected, but the inconceivable, unprecedented and unbelievable. “Just as you think there’s nothing else that can go wrong and you’ve experienced it all, we get hit with something that we never even thought about in our wildest dreams,” said Bethann Rooney, the port director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, at the agency’s annual State of the Port event held in Newark, N.J., at the start of 2025. It had been a tumultuous year that saw a labor disruption for East Coast and Gulf ports, the temporary closure ofRead More →

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The summer of 2013 was a breaking point for the Port of New York and New Jersey. “It was like Armageddon,” said Bethann Rooney, port director at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. “It was the worst cargo congestion we’ve ever seen.” The compounding causes – technological difficulties, a labor shortage, and lingering effects of Hurricane Sandy – couldn’t be fixed by any single entity at the port. It led Rooney, then the manager of port security, to propose something unprecedented for that time: truly linking the supply chain in ways it never had been before. The idea proved to be aRead More →

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September followed in August’s footsteps at the Port of New York and New Jersey, revealing double-digit total volume percent increase from last year. Total volume for September, 779,388 TEUs (426,407 containers), was 18 percent higher than the 660,553 TEUs (363,853 containers) recorded in September 2023. It was the second-busiest September ever at the Port of New York and New Jersey, behind only the pandemic-driven cargo surge in 2022. This number brings the port’s year through September total to 6,586,947 TEUs (3,635,271 containers).  Imports rose by 12.5 percent in September 2024 compared to the previous year, totaling 381,440 TEUs (208,882 containers) compared to 339,033 TEUs (186,994Read More →

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