Although in the last quarter of the year the decline in the container traffic has eased and in the last month of 2019 2023 the trend is positive again, also because compared to December 2022 when the decline was -20.5%, the Port of New York - New Jersey has filed the whole of 2023 recording a significant decrease of -17.7% in containers handled in total during the year, which amounted to 7.81 million TEUs compared to 9.49 million TEUs in 2022. If the flow of full containers at embarkation marked a modest reduction of -1.1% as it amounted to 1.28 million TEUs, the traffic of full containers on landing has suffered a heavy a contraction of -16.9% to 3.99 million TEUs, and There was also a sharp decline in the handling of empty containers, which totalled 2.53 million TEUs (-25.2%).

In the fourth quarter of last year alone, the port 2.02 million TEUs globally, with a decrease of -5.1% over the same period of 2022, of which 1.03 million full TEUs at landing (-0.3%), 327 thousand full TEUs at boarding (+0.5%) and 661 thousand empty TEUs (-13.9%).