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

I work the ports of Newark as a truck driver and so many things could improve on the port side of things to be overall more efficient . As truck drivers we spend 3 to 5 hours a day at times just to return a empty container and pickup a load. Worst port as of today is Pnct . Would be nice if cheddar looked into them and see how different they are to the other ports that share the harbor with them.

The amazing thing about the Bayonne Bridge being raised is that it was done on time (minus some added time due to extreme weather) and the bridge AND waterway both stayed open while it was done. Also, while they raised the bridge, they couldn't move where the feet of the bridge are (the Bayonne side is literally in the middle of a residential area. It was a totally amazing thing to see being done bit by bit over the years.

Been to some of the New York harbors since early 2000s and recently. It hasn't changed much, while Asian countries like Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore, etc are sooo advanced now. It's so efficient, on time (especially in Japan), computerized with driverless vehicles moving containers, clean ports, etc.. you name it. US is ages behind Asia in transport.

I am fascinated by these NYC videos! And as someone who lives in a Western port city, I enjoyed learning about all the jobs that enable ports to run as they do

Cheddar has one oft he best explanatory video on youtube!!! kudos to you.

New. york is full of history and marvellous engineering. I would love to visit some day, perhaps make a vlog or a documentary about the city.

Since most of the containers these days come from the Pearl river region in China, the West coast ports have a significantly higher load than those in the east. It takes a lot more time for a ship to make it from Shenzen to NYC than to Los Angeles.

Just getting ahead of it here: "DoEs ChEdDar Do aNy ViDeOs nOT aBoUT NeW YoRk?!"

May I personally thank Macolm McClain for his revolutionary adaptation to the shipping industry.

THIS NEEDS TO BE LONGER. THANK YOU CHEDDAR THIS SHIT IS AWESOME

Shipping containers can also be loaded onto trains as well as truck trailers. They call that "intermodal". Large ships anchor a little bit south of the Verrazano Bridge for the Coast Guard to inspect (and I think they're waiting for a harbor pilot). My landlord's day job is being a tugboat captain. I saw a video on a trainspotter channel in which there were containers on flatbed trucks, one container per truck. The trucks were then parked on railroad flatcars and shipped by rail. It struck me as rather silly.

I'd tell your sound engineers to lower the background music. It's too loud for being just a background

As someone who works down on the pier, always cool see ships you work often like the MSC Elodie show up on video.

I would imagine we are steadily approaching a time limit before a lot of our largest, or at least most critical ports, will have to either split function, or be moved to new locations where larger ports for the realistically growing future can be built and expanded. I imagine we will largely wait until we have to rush to truly make the replacement.

Thank you for this information. I need it for my school assigment!

I'd like to recommend all nerds to check-out the "What is Going on With Shipping?" channel for more US and global shipping stuff. I've been watching it since the Ever Given situation and the content perfectly fits the channels title, lots of news and background things.

Amazing how they talk about everything to do with the port, and moving containers, except the trucks. Considering how many come through any port in a given day, and how crucial they are to the functioning of the ports, that's a little surprising.

8:36 I used to work at one of those tank terminals.

Amount of logistcis have to be done to run all this smoothly 24/7 is mind blowing

Over the last few months this has been the busiest port in the US. I do a lot of shipspotting there and it's an incredible operation to watch.