Port Cranes At Work

Trade stats released for June 2015 confirmed cargo volumes at the Port of New York and New Jersey set a record pace during the first six months of 2015. Volumes were moved 13.4 percent higher than the same period in 2014, which established the previous record. Between January and June of this year, the port handled 3,093,789 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units), compared to 2,727,554 TEUs handled during the same period in 2014. These record volumes have allowed the port to maintain its position as the busiest on the East Coast. Cargo handled by ExpressRail, the Port Authority’s ship-to-rail system serving New York and New JerseyRead More →

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containerized map

The Port of New York and New Jersey continued its upward trend for cargo volumes by setting new monthly records in overall volume and rail lifts while trumping last year’s overall volumes for the month of May. Overall lifts for May 2015 were recorded at 322,681, or 12.1 percent better than overall lifts recorded in May 2014. This number sets a new monthly record for the port, which, year-to-date is ahead of 2014 volumes by 11.4 percent. With 162,851 lifts, May’s import loads outperformed import loads in May 2014 by 12.7 percent. Year-to-date import loads lead the same period for 2014 by 11.7 percent. AtRead More →

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Mayor Bill de Blasio at the Brooklyn waterfront

Port Authority officials recently joined New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and other elected officials to announce an action aimed at revitalizing the Brooklyn waterfront. On June 29, 2015, officials celebrated commencement of a new container-on-barge service between the Port Authority’s Port Newark Container Terminal and the Red Hook Container Terminal in Brooklyn, which should be operational before the end of the summer. This initiative takes places under the auspices of the U.S.  Maritime Administration’s “America’s Marine Highway Program”, a federal initiative to integrate the nation’s 29,000 nautical miles of navigable waterways into the overall U.S. transportation network. Ultimately, container-on-barge service contributes to tangibleRead More →

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GWB Traffic Signals

At their meeting on June 25, 2015, the Port Authority Board of Commissioners approved a $65.1 million project to overhaul signage for the George Washington Bridge. The action entails upgrading and replacing the current Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) with variable message signs, vehicle detectors, traffic cameras, travel time readers, and a weather information station that connects to the TRANSCOM network. TRANSCOM is a consortium that operates a regional traffic management system and provides information to all member agencies for radio reports, highway signs, traffic apps, and other methods of dissemination. Prior to this action, the Board of Commissioners approved the replacement of 15 obsolete variableRead More →

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George Washington Bridge Upper Level Structural Steel

On June 17, 2015, the Port Authority announced the completion of an $82 million state-of-good-repair project to replace the steel deck panels on the George Washington Bridge’s upper level. Initiated in 2012, this effort required nightly closings for three of the four upper-level lanes on either the westbound or the eastbound sides of the bridge. Those lane closings are now over. The project involved replacing 362, 6-foot steel panels on the upper-level deck as well as support structure on the bridge. Estimates say this work should extend the life of the roadway deck by 15 to 20 years. Deck components the project replaced were installedRead More →

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