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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2002
Water Travel:
A plan for an important inland waterway has been suggested by the
Board of Commerce and Navigation of New Jersey. According to this
plan the old Delaware and Raritan Canal and the Delaware River, from
Trenton southward, would become links in the Intracoastal Waterway
from Boston, Massachusetts, to the Rio Grande, Texas. The project would
involve the Federal Government's making navigable this part of the Delaware; and opening and restoring to use the old canal, or constructing a
new one. The State maintains all inland waterways and operates State
inland waterway terminals.
The principal deepwater ports on the northwest border of the State for
overseas and coastwise transportation are Newark and Elizabethport on
Newark Bay, Perth Amboy on Raritan Bay, Jersey City and Bayonne on
New York Bay, and Hoboken, Weehawken and Edgewater on the Hudson. On the Hudson County waterfront 100,00 passengers yearly arrive
or depart by regular transoceanic steamship lines, which also handle freight
in quantity. At Hoboken a modern feature is the seatrain steamship service that carries 101 loaded freight cars on each boat to Havana and New
Orleans. Camden, with regular steamship lines operating to Baltimore and
Hawaii, dominates ocean transport on the Delaware side.
A continuous inland waterway extends along the Atlantic Coast for 115
miles from the head of Barnegat Bay to Cape May. It is used chiefly for
pleasure sailing and the shipping of sea products, petroleum, and lumber.
New Jersey shares navigation of the Delaware River
with Pennsylvania and Delaware for sea-going vessels as far as Trenton,
and for small craft to Port Jervis, New York. The State's other important
navigable streams are the Passaic, Hackensack, and Raritan, all of which
afford ready access to inland ports in the industrial area. The Hudson
River, Kill van Kull, and Arthur Kill are shared with New York for river
trade and ocean transport.
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