New York Shipping Association (NYSA) is a premier professional organization in the maritime industry. The organization supports a secure and growing port and a highly skilled labor force, efficiently and economically moving cargo in a deep and sustainable harbor located in an estuary flourishing with natural resources.
NYSA provides services in worker and safety training, worker screening and employment, and day-to-day labor relations. It also provides management, administrative and information services to various employee benefit funds, and participates in the regulated management and daily dispatching of the longshore workforce.
The association represents the ocean cargo carriers, the terminal operators, the stevedores, the marine-related businesses that move the cargo, train and employ laborers, provide and maintain the equipment moving hundreds of billions in imports and exports to and from the largest and richest consumer market in the world.