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Dock Management Progress Section How Successful Dock Operators Have Met Problems of Giving Best Service to Ships Airplane View of Port Newark Development June, 1927—30 Feet Depth of Water Port Newark Attracts Shipping By Its Location and Equipment port development in the United States which has cation on sound economic grounds than Port Newark, N. J. Nor has any project of this nature been more intelligently and energetically carried forward. For years Thomas L. Ray- mond, commissioner of public works and now mayor of the City of Newark ably assisted by a loyal staff headed by J. W. Costello, chief engineer, has been the advocate, the sponsor and the man of action in the de- velopment of the port in the face of many difficulties and obstacles. With rare vision and courage based on a conviction of the possibilities of the project as an ocean port of conse- quence he has obtained from the city the necessary funds which, with a re- cently authorized appropriation of $2,500,000, now amount to a total of $12,000,000. The map on this page shows the strategic location of Port Newark in relation to New York city which is only eight miles away; and yet it is as near the open Atlantic as i. IS difficult to conceive of any more justifi- 36 the piers of New York harbor. A recent executive order by President Coolidge provides that Port Newark be considered within the customs dis- trict of the port of New York. Ships therefore may enter and clear at this PORT NEWARK HAS READY ACCESS TO NEW YORK BAY MARINE REVIEW—December, 1927 port on the same basis and with exactly the same documents as re- quired for arriving or departing at piers on Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island or the Jersey shore of the Hudson. It is therefore in every sense an integral part of the great harbor system of New York. The approach to Port Newark from New York bay is through the Kill van Kull between Staten. Island and the Jersey shore and into Newark Bay through a broad channel dredged to 30 feet at mean low tide with 31 feet throughout projected for the near future. So much for its location as regards access to the sea and_ proximity to the greatest harbor in the United States. What of its location in rela- tion to those elements which require the facilities of a great sea port and on which in the last analysis it must depend for the increasing trade that will mean its growth and pros- perity? George S. Silzer former gov- ernor of New Jersey and now chair- man of the New York Port Author- ity in an article defining the port