port authority

noun

1. a government commission that manages bridges, tunnels, airports, and other such facilities of a port or city.

Example Sentences

The collision didn’t impact airport operations, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said.

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However, officials say that the federal government cannot just take over the site as the land and museum are under jurisdiction of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

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Colombo Port Authority has also denied any responsibility, saying it did not know of the issues until the ship arrived in its waters.

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“Ghost buses,” as the employees began to call them, would show up in the middle of the night without warning, depositing migrants at the city’s Port Authority, requiring the Roosevelt to run 24 hours a day.

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And as Newark tragically learned with the July 2023 maritime fire that killed two city firefighters, when you can't hold entities like GEO or the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey accountable, people die and it's ordinary citizens and their city that pay the price.

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