#251 - Port of NY & NJ Gives an Exclusive UPDATE! - Blair Wegescheide Kelly

Truck N' Hustle

Rahmel Wattley

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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0:00.0	All right, and we are back for round two. We are here at the Port of New York and New Jersey, and I am here with...
0:06.0	Blair, Wageshide Kelly.
0:08.0	Blair, Wageshide Kelly, and Blair, what is your role here at the Port of New York and New Jersey?
0:12.0	I am the manager of Port Efficiency.
0:14.0	All right, and you are... You've been here before.
0:17.0	I have, yeah.
0:18.0	Our guests and our resident port expert will call you, right? So welcome back, Blair.
0:24.0	Thank you. Thanks for having me. Thank you for being here. So since we last spoke, Blair, have container
0:29.0	volume, well, since we last spoke, have container volumes and Chuck have activity increased at the port,
0:33.9	New York, and New Jersey? Yes. I believe we spoke in the spring maybe, so we were
0:39.0	talking about peak season then. So we definitely experienced elevated cargo volumes during that peak
0:44.8	season over the summer. So we saw a very busy July. I believe we were at over 800,000 T.E.Us,
0:53.0	which was our busiest July on record, actually.
0:57.0	So we think that happened mainly because there's some uncertainty in the port, but the
1:03.1	shippers, beneficial cargo owners were really trying to front load a lot of their cargo and
1:07.5	bring in some more inventory before this holiday season and the end of the year as well.
1:12.4	Okay.
1:12.8	TEUs.
1:13.5	Can you explain what that is?
1:14.5	Sure.
1:15.0	Yep.
1:15.2	So that's a 20-foot equivalent unit.
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