New crane simulator at NY-NJ port aims to improve efficiency

The Port of New York and New Jersey plans to create what it says will be the first state-of-the art training center at a port on the East Coast that will use three computerized simulators to improve the skills of crane operators, with an eye to improving efficiency at the port.

The center, known as the New York Harbor Crane Operator’s Training Center, will train members of the International Longshoremen’s Association at the nation’s third-largest port to operate the “newest generation” of ship-to-shore and yard cranes on a simulator with a cabin, similar to that used by airline pilots.