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The gates of the marine terminals in New York and northern New Jersey will be closed at 5 p.m. ET (2100 GMT) ahead of a work stoppage, said Rick Cotton, executive director of the Port Authority of ...
The top-tier hourly wage of $39 for longshoremen amounts to just over $81,000 annually, but dockworkers can make significantly more by taking on extra shifts. For example, according to a 2019-20 annual report from the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, about one-third of local longshoremen made $200,000 or more a year.
Striking U.S. dockworkers have reached a tentative agreement with shipping and port terminal companies for a wage hike of around 62% that will end a three-day strike, a source familiar with the ...
New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Monday warned of possible banana shortages, telling a news conference at Port Authority headquarters: "I do not want to be in a position to say, 'Yes, we have no ...
The Port of New York and New Jersey grew from the original harbor at the convergence of the Hudson River and the East River at the Upper New York Bay. The Sandy Hook Pilots are licensed maritime pilots that go aboard oceangoing vessels, passenger liners , freighters , and tankers and are responsible for the navigation of larger ships through ...
Flag used by the Port Authority, a bicolor of Buff and Blue with the coat of arms of New Jersey and New York surmounted on gold fringe. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, (PANYNJ; stylized, in logo since 2020, as Port Authority NY NJ) is a joint venture between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, established in 1921 through an interstate compact authorized by the United ...
A strike would cause billions of dollars in economic damage and force shippers to divert more products to the West Coast, raising costs for retailers and ultimately consumers.
Voting on September 11 in the New York City mayoral primary was halted. Elections in Syracuse and Buffalo, New York were also delayed. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), with the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations to be held in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia, was postponed. The organizers ...