Port of New York and New Jersey
The Port of New York and New Jersey is the port district of the Newyork-Newark metropolitan area, 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 Jersy Habour entry, which runs along 650 miles (1,050 km) of shoreline in the vicinity of New York City and northeastern new jersey, as well as the region's airport and supporting rail and roadway distribution networks. Considered one of the largest natural harbours in the world, the port is by tonnage the third largest in the United States and the busiest on the east coast
The port is the nation's top gateway for international flights and its busiest centre for overall passenger and air freight flights. There are two foreign trade zones(FTZ) within the port. The port handled $208 billion in shipping cargo in 2011, and 3,342,286 containers and 393,931 automobiles in 2014. The largest ship, the CMA, CGM Theodore Roosevelt;t to call at an East coast port passed under the raised Bayonne bridge in July 2017, signalling a new era of container capacity.
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