The Port of New York and New Jersey set yet another monthly record for cargo volumes in July, according to the latest figures from the port authority.
Container throughput jumped another 7.9 percent to 622,559 TEUs compared with the same month a year ago, which itself was an all-time record for the month of July.
Volumes of loaded import containers swelled 10.4 percent year-over-year to 322,093 TEUs for the month, while loaded exports grew 3.3 percent to 116,441 TEUs compared with July 2017.
Through the first seven months of 2018, the port has seen overall container volumes rise nearly 7 percent year-over-year to 4.07 million TEUs.
Volumes of containers moved by ExpressRail, PANYNJ’s ship-to-rail system serving New York and New Jersey marine terminals, increased 10.5 percent to 54,254 total containers in July, bringing the year-to-date 14.3 percent ahead of the same seven-month period of 2017.
In non-containerized cargo, automobile volumes at the port fell 15.9 percent year-over-year to 43,938 cars and trucks. PANYNJ noted, however, that vehicle volumes so far this year are up 2.6 percent from the same 2017 period.