
East Coast’s Busiest Seaport Charts Growth Following Turbulent 2024
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 →