Port of NY-NJ achieves 13.4pc container growth - on track to top 2014
(Shipping Gazette 3 Aug 2015)
THE Port of New York and New Jersey saw first half container volume grow by 13.4 per cent from a year earlier after handling 3.1 million TEU, putting the ports on track to surpass their record 2014 volume.
Between January and June, loaded import containers totalled 1.57 million TEU, up 13.1 per cent. The port handled 279,038 TEU of loaded import boxes in June, a 15.5 per cent increase from June 2014.
"We're reaping the benefits of a strong regional economy and labour uncertainty on the west coast," said port commerce director Richard Larrabee. "Our challenge now is to find ways to more efficiently handle the record volumes we've seen all year, and we've been working collaboratively with all port stakeholders to meet this goal."
In June, New York-New Jersey terminals loaded 165,483 TEU of empties, compared with 115,991 TEU of export loads. Six-month totals were 808,297 TEU of empty exports, compared with 699,246 TEU of export loads, reported Newark's Journal of Commerce.
The port's ExpressRail intermodal rail terminals handled 257,103 containers during the first half, up 15.2 per cent from a year earlier. June rail lifts totalled 45,681 containers, up 18.5 per cent.
Mr Larrabee is retiring in September after 15 years in which he oversaw the port's 50-foot channel dredging, development of intermodal rail ramps, reconfiguration and expansion of port terminals, roadway improvements, and work on a long-delayed raising of the Bayonne Bridge, which is scheduled to be ready for larger ships next summer.
His successor, former deputy director of the port of Los Angeles, Molly Campbell, has already taken up her new post.
New York-New Jersey's surge in cargo has been accompanied by cargo delays that led the port authority to create an industry-wide task force that produced 23 recommendations that the Council on port performance is working to implement. Many of those recommendations, including creation of a "grey" pool of interchangeable chassis, are still in development.
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