MAPONY/NJ is excited to announce registration for the International Maritime Hall of Fame Award 2024 is open! The awards will be presented at one of the industry’s most widely attended dinner gala events, on May 15th 2024 at The Lighthouse, Pier 61, at Chelsea Piers in New York City.

This year’s IMHOF inductees represent a cross-section of maritime trailblazers who have demonstrated leadership, vision and a commitment to advancing the maritime industry throughout their careers:

• Randy Booker-Chairman, Terminal Investment Corporation (TICO)
• Joseph S. Gregorio-Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Pacific Crane Maintenance Company, LLC (PCMC)
• Rolf Habben Jansen-Chief Executive Officer, Hapag-Lloyd
• Mary Jo Muoio-Director of Customs and Trade, Amazon
• John C. Wobensmith-Chief Executive Officer, Genco Shipping & Trading Limited

We’re excited to have leaders across the industry join us to honor an impressive list of individuals in the global maritime and transportation industry.

News from our Government Relations Committee

Recently, MAPONY/NJ and its members' delegation visited Capitol Hill representatives to discuss the Port of New York and New Jersey. Our conversations were dynamic while also focusing on strengthening the region's maritime sector through federal assistance by increasing support for port infrastructure. 

2024 State of the Port of New York and New Jersey

On January 29th, MAPONYNJ was proud to join the Port Authority of NY & NJ and the Shipping Association of NY & NJ to host the State of the Port event.

The Port of New York and New Jersey finished 2023 with volume totals that exceeded 2019’s pre-COVID numbers by 4.4 percent. This number brings the Port of New York and New Jersey’s 2023 total to 7,810,005 TEUs (4,328,153 containers).

It was also reported that in 2023 the Port handled:

• 629,193 Rail Lifts
• 366,796 Autos
• 1,181,487 Cruise Passengers
• 3.1 Million Metric Tons of Bulk Cargo

The event was live-streamed on the Port Authority's YouTube and can be rewatched by clicking the link below.

January 2024 Vessel Stats

Public Notices

NJEDA advises a Notice to Lease Property at the New Jersey Wind Port has been uploaded to NJEDA’s website. Scroll down to the section NOTICE FOR LEASE OF PROPERTY AT THE NEW JERSEY WIND PORT.

All questions concerning the Notice must be submitted via e-mail to njwindport@njeda.gov by no later than 11:59 PM U.S. Eastern Time, February 12, 2024. 

All non-binding offers must be received by 3:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time, March 1, 2024. Further details on the submission process are included in Exhibit A of the Notice. 

USACE has received an application for Marina Improvements, Reconfiguration and Dredging for Port Regalle Marina & Yacht Club, LLC.

Comments are due by February 23, 2024

USACE published a Public Notice on Maintenance Dredging of approximately 640,000 cubic yards for Newark Bay.

Comments are due by February 23, 2024.

USACE has received an application for installing Rip-Rap Revetment and Construct Low Marsh Tidal Wetland from the Town of North Hempstead.

Comments are due by February 24, 2024.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announces the availability of the draft programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) to analyze the potential impacts of wind energy development in six lease areas of the New York (NY) Bight. The PEIS also identifies possible changes in those impacts that could result from adopting certain avoidance, minimization, mitigation, and monitoring (AMMM) measures (the Proposed Action). This notice of availability (NOA) announces the start of the public review and comment period and the dates and times for public meetings on the draft PEIS. 

Comments are due by February 26, 2024.

USACE has received an application for the proposed MARSHES Umbrella Mitigation Bank, located at the Bush Terminal Piers Park, Pier 7, Marginal Street and 43rd Street, Brooklyn, New York.

The Three service areas are:

1) The portions of the Lower Hudson River Basin that are within the New York City Municipal limits and includes portions of Lower Hudson and Sandy Hook-Staten Island.

2) The portions of the following subbasins that are within the New York City Municipal limits: Bronx River, Long Island Sound, and Northern Long Island,

3) The portions of the following subbasins that are within the New York City Municipal Southern Long Island, Mullica-Toms, and Sandy Hook-Staten Island.

Comments are due by March 8, 2024

The state, fishing industry, and OSW developer efforts to establish a regional fisheries compensation fund have reached the RFP launch stage. RFP 5554 Regional Fund Administrator for an Offshore Wind Fisheries Mitigation Fund is now live. The RFP is located on NYSERDA’s Current Solicitations and Funding Opportunities Page.

Applications are due by March 20, 2024.

The Coast Guard announced in the Federal Register that they are updating the user fees for seagoing towing vessels 300 gross tons or more and revising user fees for other inspected towing vessels.

This final rule is effective March 27, 2024.

The Coast Guard is proposing to establish shipping safety fairways (“fairways”) along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, identified in the Atlantic Coast Port Access Route Study. Fairways would preserve the safe and reliable transit of vessels along well-established traffic patterns and routes. While vessels are not required to use them, fairways are designed to keep traditional navigation routes free from fixed structures that could impact navigation safety and impede other shared offshore activities. The Coast Guard recognizes that there is increasing interest in offshore commercial development, including offshore renewable energy installations, and believes this development is best served by the establishment of consistent and well-defined fairways. The proposed fairways would help ensure that offshore developments remain viable by allowing developers to construct and maintain installations without risk of impeding vessel traffic. The Coast Guard is also proposing to establish traffic separation schemes and precautionary areas along the Atlantic coast to further improve navigation safety.

Comments are due by April 18, 2024

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Informational Pipelines