Jersey City sits on the Hudson River across from Manhattan, and its name appears in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's own list of the cities in the Port District. The Port Authority's 2025 annual report says the Port of New York and New Jersey moved 5,955,798 loaded TEUs that year, 2.8 percent more than in 2024, and calls it the busiest port on the East Coast and among the top three in the country. The same report gives the agency's address as 2 Montgomery Street, Jersey City. A container port moves containers, not parcels, so the honest point for a Shopify store is narrow: if you import stock in containers, this is the port your forwarder probably names, and if you sell to shoppers in the Jersey City area, you can run a campaign that stands on a local page. This page sets out the port facts as the Port Authority gives them, says what they do not tell you, and builds a landing page free shipping plan around one metro campaign.
Jersey City is one of the cities of the Port District of the Port of New York and New Jersey, which the Port Authority calls the busiest port on the East Coast, and the Port Authority's own address is in the city.
If you import by container, plan the campaign date from when the cargo is released, not from when it sails. The Port Authority's report calls the port the busiest on the East Coast, so ask your forwarder for the clearing date in writing and add a buffer week. This is planning advice, not a port rule.
Source: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (2025)
Choose one place shoppers arrive from, such as an email to subscribers with a Jersey City or Port District address or a post that links to the landing page. The report lists Newark, Jersey City, Bayonne, Hoboken and Elizabeth among the Port District's New Jersey cities, which gives you a named set of towns to write to.
Source: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (2025)
Offer free shipping only to shoppers who arrive from that page, with a minimum order and an end date. Assume 400 orders from the page at 8 dollars of shipping each: the campaign costs you 3,200 dollars if every order uses it, and that is your ceiling. The developer setup the template needs is printed with the button below; plan for it before the campaign date. These are assumptions for the arithmetic.
Compare orders and profit per order with the same weeks before the campaign. If orders from the page cost more in shipping than they added in margin, shorten the next campaign or raise the minimum.
Build it with the Landing page shipping template.
Requires: Growth plan or higher, A developer to set up the storefront side.
5,955,798 loaded TEUs is a count of loaded containers in twenty-foot equivalent units. It is not a count of parcels. Use it to tell an importer why a forwarder names this port, not to describe your last-mile shipping.
Source: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (2025)
The report names terminals but does not place each in a municipality, so we name none for Jersey City. If you import by container, ask your forwarder which terminal your cargo clears and when it is released, because that date sets when your campaign stock can go on sale.
Source: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (2025)
County Business Patterns counts 99 warehousing and storage establishments and 83 freight arrangement establishments in the county that contains Jersey City, for 2023. That shows there are many logistics firms nearby, and it says nothing about which one suits your store.
A campaign for shoppers around the Port District can send everyone to a single landing page and offer free shipping only from there. Planning advice: keep the page short, name the offer's end date and measure its orders against the same weeks without it.
Source: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (2025)
The Port Authority's 2025 annual report says the Port of New York and New Jersey moved 5,955,798 loaded TEUs in 2025, a 2.8 percent increase from 2024, and remained the second-busiest seaport for loaded TEUs in the nation, reaching the number one spot some months.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (2025) (accessed October 11, 2026)
The same report says the port remained the busiest on the East Coast and among the top three busiest in the country throughout 2025, as the first East Coast port of call for the vast majority of transatlantic container vessels.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (2025) (accessed October 11, 2026)
The report says port operations support more than 580,000 industry jobs in the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania region, according to a study of 2025 maritime economic activity by the Shipping Association of New York and New Jersey.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (2025), citing the Shipping Association of New York and New Jersey (accessed October 11, 2026)
The report's map caption says the Port District includes the cities of New York and Yonkers in New York State and the cities of Newark, Jersey City, Bayonne, Hoboken and Elizabeth in New Jersey, along with more than 200 other municipalities and all or part of 17 counties.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (2025) (accessed October 11, 2026)
A note in the report says the Port Authority acquired about 131 acres of the former Marine Ocean Terminal at Bayonne Peninsula from the Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority in 2010 for 235 million dollars and folded the land into the Port Jersey Port Authority Marine Terminal; the report does not say in which municipality the terminal lies.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (2025) (accessed October 11, 2026)
The report gives the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's address as 2 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, New Jersey 07302, for requests to its Comptroller's Department.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (2025) (accessed October 11, 2026)
County Business Patterns 2023 lists 973 establishments in transportation and warehousing (the file's 48 to 49 sector), including 99 in warehousing and storage (NAICS 493) and 83 in freight transportation arrangement (NAICS 488510), in county 017 of New Jersey, the county the Census Bureau's place file assigns to Jersey City.
U.S. Census Bureau: County Business Patterns 2023, county file (New Jersey county 017; county assignment from the Vintage 2025 place file) (accessed October 11, 2026)
The Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimate for Jersey City is 302,013 residents, up from an April 2020 estimates base of 292,742; by our sort of the New Jersey places in the same file only Newark, at 323,808, is larger.
U.S. Census Bureau: Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places (Vintage 2025, SUB-EST2025; rank is our sort) (accessed October 11, 2026)
Not tax advice. Confirm current rules with the state revenue department before you rely on a date or an exemption.
Requires: Growth plan or higher, A developer to set up the storefront side.
