On Wednesday, the Port Authority for New York and New Jersey announced 2022 saw the highest cargo activity on record, with a 27 percent growth over its pre-pandemic activity.
In its reports for December 2022 and the full 2022 year, the port authority announced the port moved a record 9.5 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) in 2022, making it the busiest container port during the peak months of the holiday shipping season in the country. In December alone, the port handled 613,011 TEUs, a 3.6 increase over December 2019. Monthly cargo volume fell 15.2 percent when comparing December to November 2022, when the seaport handled 723,069 TEUs.
