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The port authority took over the operations of Port Newark and Newark Airport in 1948 and began modernizing both facilities and expanding them southward. The SS Ideal X, considered the first container ship, made her maiden voyage as a container carrier on April 26, 1956, [11] carrying 58 containers from Port Newark to the Port of Houston.
This merger started the dominance of Continental Airlines, and later United Airlines, at Newark Airport. [49] On July 22, 1981, a railroad tank car carrying ethylene oxide caught fire at the freight yard in Port Newark, causing the evacuation of a one-mile radius including an evacuation of the North Terminal building of the airport. [50]
The passenger cruise ship terminals in the port are located in the traditional, or "inner", harbor. Collectively the cruise terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey are the sixth busiest in the United States and 16th busiest in the world for passenger travel. Cape Liberty Cruise Port, MOTBY, Upper Bay [88]
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However, in late 2014, there were calls for reconsideration of Port Authority funding priorities. The PATH extension followed the route of existing Manhattan-to-Newark Airport train service, while there was no funding for either the Gateway Tunnel under the Hudson River, or the replacement of the aging and overcrowded Port Authority Bus ...
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Since the 1950s, the New York and Brooklyn commercial port has been almost completely eclipsed by the container ship facility at nearby Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal in Newark Bay, which is the largest such port on the Eastern Seaboard. The port has diminished in importance to passenger travel, but the Port Authority operates all three ...