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Chart ι General Cargo Waterfronts of the New York Port This map does not show facilities for bulk cargo. For example, there are extensive petroleum facilities on the Kill Van Kull, and also on the Arthur Kill, which is off the picture to the left. According to the Port of New York Authority, more than 400 vessels can be berthed simultaneously at the Port's general cargo and bulk cargo piers. I The Port's Rise to DominanceThe New York Metropolitan Region, by sheer weight of numbers, sits atop the nation in so many economic activities that it is much easier to list those in which the Region does not occupy first place. But one would be hard put to identify activities in which the Region's supremacy has endured as long as it has in the handling of foreign trade. This endurance seems the more notable when it is realized that for almost a hundred years the trade passing through the Port of New York has failed to increase as fast as that passing through the nation's other ports. Yet New York's head start was so great that we still find it far in the lead today.In 1957 the merchant ships of the world engaging in international trade made 7,666 calls at the Port of New York. Most of them ti

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Author

Chinitz, Benjamin

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1960

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674494084

Category

nonfiction