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Newark NJ, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey today announced that its commercial airports concluded the summer travel season on a sizzling pace, capped by record travel around the Labor Day holiday. From January through August, airport passenger volumes outpaced the same period of 2023, which had been the busiest year ever for the region’s airports. The Port of New York and New Jersey surpassed 700,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) for the sixth consecutive month while outpacing activity from 2023 and pre-pandemic 2019. The agency’s vehicular crossings continued to show strong performance, holding steady at pre-pandemic 2019 levels. Ridership on the PATH commuter rail system maintained ridership at two-thirds of pre-pandemic 2019 levels.
Airports:
The summer travel season concluded with Port Authority airports maintaining their record pace. From January through August, the agency’s commercial airports served approximately 97.7 million passengers. This was about 1.4 million more passengers than over the same period in 2023, which had been the airports’ busiest year ever.
In August, the region’s airports welcomed approximately 13.4 million passengers. This was a decrease of 1 percent from August 2023. The slight decline is largely due to several severe weather events throughout the month that resulted in extensive travel disruptions. International travel continued to show strong growth. August’s international passenger total of 5.3 million was a 3 percent increase from August 2023.
The record-breaking summer travel season was capped by a record-setting busy Labor Day travel period. From Aug. 29 to Sept. 3, the agency’s commercial airports served approximately 2.5 million passengers. This was a 4 percent increase over the previous record set for the travel period in 2023.
Port of New York and New Jersey:
The Port of New York and New Jersey handled 790,891 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) in August 2024, making it the third busiest in the nation for moving total containers and imported loaded cargo. It was the sixth consecutive month in which the seaport surpassed 700,000 TEUs handled. The robust cargo activity reflects retailers stocking up for holiday shopping.
August 2024’s total was a 19 percent increase from August 2023, and a 16 percent jump from August 2019.
Over the first eight months of the year, the seaport has handled 5,807,517 TEUs. The total outpaced the first eight months of 2023 by 13 percent, and the same period in 2019 by 16 percent. The robust activity for the year so far was surpassed only by the extraordinary amount of cargo moved during the same periods during 2021 and 2022.
Tunnels, Bridges and Terminals:
Approximately 10.7 million eastbound vehicles used the Port Authority’s six vehicular crossings in August 2024. This was on par with August 2023 volumes and only slightly lower by 2.6 percent from pre-pandemic August 2019 volumes.
From January through August, about 81.1 million eastbound vehicles used the agency’s crossings. This is consistent with past metrics, continuing the strong performance seen during the same periods of 2023 and 2019.
PATH Commuter Rail:
The PATH commuter rail system experienced steady ridership growth in August 2024. The month’s total ridership of 4.7 million passengers was a 5 percent increase from August 2023. It was 66 percent of August 2019’s total.
August 2024’s average weekday ridership was 175,682. This was an 8 percent jump from August 2023. Year-to-date, PATH has moved approximately 36.8 million passengers, which was a 12 percent increase over passenger volumes from the same period in 2023. PATH so far this year has served 62 percent of its 2019 ridership during the same period.
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