b'2American Journal of Transportation ajot.com JFK Top Twenty Air Freight CarriersNEW YORK PORTS 2021 12 Months Ending July 2021Airline Short Tons % 0f TotalFederal Express 87,809 6.6%Air Transport Intl. (BAX Inc.) 84,986 6.4%Atlas Air 84,440 6.4%Delta Cargo 68,736 5.2%United Parcel Service 58,276 4.4%Korean Air 57,513 4.3%ABX Air Inc. 57,377 4.3%Cargolux Airlines 55,249 4.2%Cathay Pacific 49,345 3.7%The CMA CGM Marco Polo, the largest vessel ever to call at the port, passes under the Bayonne Bridge. American Air Cargo 48,326 3.7%Port of NY/NJ: Proactive investmentsKalItta Air LLC 48,244 3.6%Air China International 42,337 3.2%helped deal with COVID cargo spike Qatar Airways 36,391 2.8%Lufthansa Cargo 35,001 2.6%With dramatic volume increases, future infrastructure expenditures will needAce Belgium Freighters 32,627 2.5%to be accelerated. Virgin Atlantic 32,016 2.4%By Peter Buxbaum, AJOT Turkish Air 25,785 2.0%British Airways 24,800 1.9%Inmid-October,thePortonly reason the port has beenterms of TEUS, by 18.8%, asChina Airlines (CAL) 23,762 1.8%AuthorityofNew Yorkandable to cope better than someof the end of August, over theAir France 21,351 1.6%New Jersey (PANYNJ) reportedothers with the spike in cargo(SPIKEcontinued on therewerethreeshipsatvolumes, which is ahead, inpage 6) Source: PANYNJanchorwaitingforatermi-nal berth and that the average waittimeforvesselstoget into the harbor was just under adayandahalf.Thatsa stark contrast to the situation prevailing at some other loca-tions, such as Southern Cali-forniaandSavannah,where dozens of ships wait to dock for days on end.Before the COVID-19 pan-demic appeared, container ter-minals on the New York side of the harbor, in Staten Island, were underutilized. Now that theportmustcopewitha once-unexpected spike in cargo, some vessels approaching the portofNew YorkandNew Jerseyarebeingdirected awayfromNewJerseyter-minals in Elizabeth, Newark, andBayonne,andtothose terminals in New York.Capacity is not unlimited, but we have been able to flex terminal yard and gate capac-ity more effectively than some otherports,saidSamRuda, the port director, in an exclu-sive interview with theAJOT. Theterminalsexperienced five to six years of cargo growth compressed into an 18-month period. On a percentage basis, the Staten Island terminals are experiencing the fastest growth in the port.C ompletedI nfrastruCturep rojeCtsK eyC apaCItyThe availability of excess terminalcapacityisnotthe Sam Ruda, port director, Port of New York/New Jersey'