The Growing Challenges Facing New York's Ports - NYC Revealed 

Would it be better to move the freight by rail a couple miles away from the city to a dedicated container center where they could be put on long haul trucks? So the trucks wouldn't have to go through city traffic just to get to the port and then more traffic to leave the city.

@@AG-yc7vt the ports do have rail inside of the ports that would go inland, the truck drivers typically pull loaded containers and deliver to warehouses in the tri-state. From there long haul drivers get loaded and make the journey. We mostly use interstate 78, 80 and i95 from there we can go ti any near by state pretty quickly but most of our day is spent inside inefficient ports

@@AG-yc7vt lorries are far more efficient in short distances than long ones, the ideal solution would be to build a cargo station lorries take containers to

What is Pnct (port)?

@@batya7 yea ,port newark container terminal

Japan is something else. Also, its population is declining fast they have no choice but to automate as many things as possible. But you are right, the US is far behind because it hadn't invested on infrastructure for decades until recently and that is nowhere near enough.

That was my first thought! Where’s the ai?? I thought we we’re better than that.

Unions.

@@the0ne809 China also recently upgraded their ports to be automated with autonomous vehicles.

@Rohit S lmao, it is the unions that played a major role in driving business to other states.

THANK YOU!!

Please continue to do videos that only revolve around New York City. Anywhere else in the world is simply not worth it.

like anybody would actually watch that shit though do yourself a favor and don't bother

You won't be disappointed. This coming from someone,born and raised in L.A(love my city).

We would love to have you visit and film. Depending on what you film, you may need a license or permit.

It's like 14 days china to Long Beach. Then 3 days train to NYC. Most my freight is the US to latin america and the Caribbean inbound comes from anywhere.

With Los Angeles back logged the largest container ships go to Europe from China and loaded on to smaller ships to U.S. east coast ports.

Shipping to LA sucks

That fake rich girl: am I a joke to you?

Tell them to go back to Texas or Florida

Because Texas and Florida are overrated

Well do you?

@@uhohhotdog Of course! This is a series. Two episodes left.

Its quite efficient actually. It means that the last mile faucilities only need offloading equipment for those container deliveries.

That's called ToFC Trailer on Flat Car. And if you ship the container without the chassis. In a well car that designation is CoFC Container on Flat Car. And some trailers are still just trailers. We ship into Elizabeth Marine Allot put it on the train in Cincinnati. There are racks we put 4 chassis on and ship them like a container as well. Just 4 pins is all that hold a container to the chassis. And then zip tie the safety catch shut locking the handle.

Where would you put them? The Ports are where they due to a number of reasons. Not only sea access, but access to deep water. The Delaware bay shore of New Jersey is very "empty", but it is also mostly all marshes and the bay is very shallow. To build a new port just south of the Delaware Memorial Bridge in Salem County would require dredging millions of Cubic feet of Mud, filling in wetlands (a big no no) and then you would need to connect the port to the existing highway and rail system. What you ask would be a big undertaking and probably not worth the time, effort, and money needed to do it. What is going to happen is a total collapse of the global market of "disposable" items. I am not talking dixie cups and trashbags, but cheap items that have a very short finite life before they need to be replaced because they cannot be repaired. Not only can the people not afford to keep replacing broken items, but the world cannot afford the costs involved in manufacturing, shipping, selling, and even disposing of them.

@@sailingspark9748 do you make some valid points, sure, but regardless of disposable items, as populations increase and we become more globally intertwined, we will continue to increase for the foreseeable future. This is why countries around the world are build new massive ports that can handle current expansion of shipping. Eventually we either build new ports or expand the ports that we have. There isn't much getting around it. Do I think we need to make many changes? Yes. Do I think many of those changes will occur? Also yes, but to outpace other growth is just highly unlikely. A lot of countries in the west are relying on ports from other era's that could and thus far have relatively kept up, but there is a limit.

The bigger ports will take the bigger ships. I'm not worried about that the U.S. Sports allot. Savannah Garden City Jacksonville Charleston Houston New Orleans Port Lauderdale Baltimore Dundalk Wilmington Norfolk Portsmouth. They all have size requirements for boats Panama canal size and smaller the bigger boats are primarily Asia to Europe thru the Suez canal. So NY NJ port authority will need to dredge the channels deeper for starters.

@@sailingspark9748 Stockholm county just a few years ago inaugurated a new harbor to be able to handle what’s coming. The harbor is located further from the city but with its own designated railroad tracks etc. Earlier the massive container ships had to navigate the worlds biggest archipelago (30 000+) islands. Passing residential areas, share the water with ferries and private boats to reach one of two harbors in Stockholm and share the space with all other types of ships. Now. With the new harbor there’s less disruption. Quicker turnarounds, safer waterways etc.

Jersey has the majority vote in the Port authority board.

Like the Giants and Jets!

@@Pocketfarmer1 I thought the governors of NY and NJ could add three commissioners to the board. No one state has more say than the other.

@@dougadkins7006 as I understand it, the governor of new Jersey always appoints the chairman of the board.

I think she meant it to mean “very much,” not really mathematically.

@@robertewalt7789 Mladen probably doesn't get out much.

Like the Jets and Giants!

Crazy to think about all the things that have to happen for you to get something

Well, Lower Manhattan wasn’t going to be able to support them, and New Jersey was willing to use Newark Bay, since much of the bay was still marshland until the advent of modern shipping.

they beat you to it by an hour

There is a lot of shoreline and room for shipping ports. Especially the west shore of Staten Island which is swampy and unpopulated. However the big shipping port in the region is in NJ.

@@daveharrison84 Putting it on Staten Island then means getting it *off* staten island, and the 4 road bridges are already pretty congested. There's already some container ships that offload there, directly adjacent to the one rail line.

The video shows that the largest ports are in New Jersey, and only one in Brooklyn. In decades past, the Port of New York ringed Manhattan (there were and are a lot of old and renovated piers formerly for those purposes), which caused a lot of congestion on the waterways and roads. But remember, tens of millions of customers live in the NYC metro area, so direct delivery was not terrible, at least in theory.

@@daveharrison84 US Lines used to be in Howland Hook.

I go to Rockaway beach all the time during the summer. People forget NYC has beautiful beaches.

Queens? You’re dream is to live in Queens? Why? Working for the port makes sense. But Queens?

@@bongwelll lucky you 🌟💯

@@kw2519 I don't know I am just feeling the place I know it's not the best in many aspects but I don't know I am attracted to it

@@maxd3028 Should probably buy a ballistic vest. Apply for your CHL too. The majority of crime happens in the Bronx and Brooklyn. Next would be queens.

Is there now?

The biggest in the western hemisphere!

2nd

Good job guys

@@cheddar it's not much, but its honest work🤠

A lot!

It is September that’s why

Like the Chinese military! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army_Navy

a) Harbors naturally get shallower as silt builds up and b) ships have been getting bigger much faster than sea level is rising

imagine looking a group of people upon who's labor rest the entirety of modern civilization and thinking 'nah, they got it too good' yeah sure, hire more people to deal with increased volumes, but union bashing is almost never a reasonable argument

@@andrewemerson1613 the union isn’t allowing temporary workers to come in. They’re using the unfortunate situation to delay and squeeze more money out. I like many unions. My dad has worked in one for decades and it’s been great. But every organization can use some criticism. Unions are so bloated and take in way too much money to just give to politicians.

Right. Unionization is a great concept but our unions as they stand are part of the corrupt machine.

@@realmechanicalengineer5792 so your argument is that the union should allow another source of unprotected labor, therefore removing all of their power as unions derive all of their negotiating capacity from representing the whole pool of labor. a union allowing large pools of UN-represented labor into the mix is basically the same as disbanding

*penny pinching management is crippling our ports. Fixed that for you