By Calvin Biesecker A small vessel attack on a piece of critical infrastructure or a larger vessel that block the channel into Port of New York and New Jersey is the "greatest single threat" to continuing operations at the port, the chief of security at the port said on Friday. The port has a single chokepoint that all deep draft vessels must pass through that if "compromised by a small vessel attack...it will essentially shut down the entire Port of…
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