A hub for both interstate and international commerce, New Jersey is one of the few states on the Atlantic Seaboard that has successfully integrated growth in air, rail, maritime, and trucking into an expansive and diversified economic engine. New Jersey's maritime ports, airports, and distribution centers feed, clothe, and otherwise provide for the needs of more than 75 million people. Handling in excess of 2.5 million containers per year, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey projects a doubling of this volume to five million containers within the next ten years, and yet again to ten million by the year 2040. Air cargo movements through Newark International Airport weighed in at one million tons for 1999, with steady increases expected for the foreseeable future. With growth in port commerce and air cargo continuing to spiral, there is an ever-increasing focus on New Jersey's roadway system, and its capacity to handle these increased traffic flows.
Trucking continues to be the predominant mode of goods movement through New Jersey.
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