Port of New York and New Jersey

Sudden surge in marine fuel costs could spur shippers to consider switch to California over Panama Canal route.

Opus9 is now offering to match shippers with drayage carriers as it expands coverage to major U.S. ports. The Sunnyvale, California-based startup, which already offers load matching and digital brokerage for truckload and less-than-truckload freight, wants to bring the same level of automation to drayage, said Chief Executive Alex Ryu.  He said the new service […]

Changing harbor tax could help smaller ports compete with trucks

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said this week that it is ready to be the second largest port in the U.S., thanks to the completion of the ExpressRail Port Jersey facility at the GCT Bayonne marine terminal. The Port Authority said in a none-too-subtle way that it “bolstered its already lofty […]

This article brought to you courtesy of NEXT Trucking Intermodal and drayage carriers are seeing a drop in demand about midway through the second quarter. The U.S.-China trade war gets most of the blame, but it might be more complicated than that. After 2018’s rush to get containerized goods off of U.S. ports and into […]

As ocean carriers bring in ever-larger container ships to the U.S., the Port of New York and New Jersey says it is ready to handle them. Last week, the YM World made its first U.S. East Coast port call at Global Container Terminal in Bayonne, New Jersey. The ultra-large container ship, owned by Taiwan’s Yang […]

Terminals moving out backlogs of containers and improving turn times; outbound freight demand still strong as drayage remains tight.

Volumes continue to remain strong even during seasonal slow patch and trucking capacity still remains tight in the region.

Record-breaking year also showed strains in supply chains as busiest U.S. East Coast port.

Freight volumes coming into U.S. remain high in January, but delays and congestions turn trips to major marine terminals into ‘madhouse.’

Overall import growth mean more freight all around, but high drayage costs and better service bringing more boxes to rail.