Port of New York and New Jersey

Port of New York and New Jersey
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Location
Coordinates40°40′06″N 74°02′44″W / 40.66833°N 74.04556°W / 40.66833; -74.04556
Details
Draft depth50 feet (15 m)
Air draft228 feet (69 m), restricted by Verrazzano Bridge
215 feet (66 m), restricted by Bayonne Bridge

The Port of New York and New Jersey is the port district of the New York-Newark metropolitan area,[1] encompassing the region within approximately a 25-mile (40 km) radius of the Statue of Liberty National Monument.

It includes the system of navigable waterways in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary, which runs along over 770 miles (1,240 km) of shoreline in the vicinity of New York City and northeastern New Jersey,[2] and is considered one of the largest natural harbors in the world.

Having long been the busiest port on the East Coast[3] it became the busiest port by maritime cargo volume in the United States in 2022[4][5] and is a major economic engine for the region.[6][7]

The region's airports make the port the nation's top gateway for international flights and its busiest center for overall passenger and air freight flights. There are two foreign-trade zones (FTZ) within the port.

  1. ^ "Latitude and longitude of Port of New York and New Jersey In United States". LATITUDE.
  2. ^ Lopate, Phillip (December 18, 2008). Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-49296-8 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Port of NY/NJ Becomes Country's Second Largest Container Port".
  4. ^ "Port of NY and NJ is now busiest nationwide". 5 April 2023.
  5. ^ Ann LoRocco, Lori (September 24, 2022). "New York is now the nation's busiest port in a historic tipping point for U.S.-bound trade". CNBC. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
  6. ^ "Port of New York and New Jersey Monthly Cargo Volumes". Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Retrieved December 10, 2022.
  7. ^ Vanessa Yurkevich (December 9, 2022). "The busiest port in America is no longer on the West Coast". CNN. Retrieved December 10, 2022.

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