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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.
It is approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) long and 1,000 feet (305 m) wide and connects Newark Bay with Upper New York Bay. [1] The Robbins Reef Light is at the eastern end of the Kill, and Bergen Point marks its western end. It is spanned by the Bayonne Bridge and is one of the most heavily traveled waterways in the Port of New York and New Jersey.
The ILA members' strike, which consisted of over 47,000 port workers across the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, including 4,500 from New York and New Jersey, began on Tuesday, Oct. 1, as the union ...
Port Newark on Newark Bay (foreground) and Port Jersey on Upper New York Bay CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt, the largest container ship to enter the port as of on Sept 7, 2017. There are four container terminals in the port: Howland Hook Marine Terminal; Port Jersey Marine Terminal; Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal; Red Hook Marine Terminal
When the Bayonne Bridge center span was raised 64 feet for a clearance of 215 feet in 2017 — a $1.7 billion project to make way for larger container ships — part of the construction included ...
Experts say New York and New Jersey’s ports can handle extra volume, but there may be growing pains along the way. After the bridge collapse, some ships will dock in Newark. What that means for you
The terminal was purchased in 1973 by the New York City government for $47.5 million, [2] and United States Lines moved its container port operation there that year. [3] In 1985, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) leased the terminal for 38 years. [4] The PANYNJ took full ownership of Howland Hook Marine Terminal in 2024.
The container vessels are holding 35,000 import containers filled with consumer goods used on a daily basis and currently 11 of them are being brought into the port to be unloaded and reloaded ...