August 2017 became the best month for cargo volumes in the long and busy history of the Port of New York and New Jersey. The monthly total of 361,565 lifts (631,404 TEUs) crushed the previous monthly high of 339, 601 lifts (588,918 TEUs) logged in July 2015. August 2017 also fared 7.8% better than the previous  year’s volumes (August 2016). At close of August 2017, the port beat 2016 overall lifts by 6.2%. Also worth noting: at 51,115 lifts, August 2017 rail volumes were 3.0% better than August 2016, qualifying August 2017 as the best rail month in Port history. Year-to-date rail volumes are 2.7%Read More →

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This article was originally presented as “Unbuilding the Bayonne Bridge” by Neal Buccino, posted at the The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Portfolio blog.   The Bayonne Bridge “Raise the Roadway” project was designed to lift the span of the Bayonne Bridge to accommodate a new generation of bigger commercial ships. This effort posed an unprecedented engineering challenge: building a new bridge over the old roadway, while the existing one was still open and carrying traffic. The work is progressing well. Recently, the U.S. Coast Guard Sector New York and pilot organizations lifted air draft restrictions enabling vessels carrying up to 9,800Read More →

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Tuesday, April 26 marked the 60th anniversary of containerization. In 1956, trucking magnate, Malcolm McLean, frustrated over the inefficiencies of unloading trucks by hand and reloading cargo onto ships, acquired a World War II era tank ship, which was renamed the Ideal X. A metal platform was installed above the tank tops and piping so that the trailers, soon to be known as shipping containers, could be loaded onto the deck. At Berth 24 in Port Newark, McLean loaded 58 trailers on the deck of the Ideal X, which sailed several hours later on its maiden voyage to Houston, TX. Containerization had been born. ByRead More →

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