New York Harbor Traffic
Container ships, ferries and tugboats on a live webcam, working the busiest harbour on the US East Coast.
About this view
New York was a port before it was anything else, and this camera shows the trade still flowing: container ships easing toward the Bayonne terminals, orange Staten Island ferries on their relentless shuttle, tugs, barges and the occasional cruise ship dressed for departure.
The Statue of Liberty stands in the distance, small in frame, unmistakable in silhouette, and harbor pilots climb aboard the big ships right in front of the live webcam. Ship-watchers can cross-reference with any vessel-tracking app to name what passes.
Traffic is heaviest on weekday mornings and late afternoons Eastern time; fog days have their own eerie beauty, all horns and half-visible hulls.
