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types. Statistics for the year 1964 for the port of New York show 

 18,682 dry cargo or passenger arrivals and departures and 5,098 

 tankers . 



The estuarine ports also serve as essential elements of the national 

 defense system. The deep water terminals exert a significant influ- 

 ence on the location of defense installations, as well as of the 

 industrial complexes necessary for logistical support of the defense 

 effort. A direct indication of the use of estuaries by naval vessels 

 is the total number of ships in commission. During the Fiscal Year 

 1967 this number was 931 with a planned increase to 960 in the Fis- 

 cal Year 1969. 



In addition to those commissioned ships, in Fiscal Year 1967 there 



were 1,071 merchant ships in the National Defense Reserve Fleet. 



These ships are stored in the estuarine areas as shown in Table IV. 



2.6. 



TABLE IV. 2. 6 



Fiscal Year 1967 



National Defense Reserve Fleet (Merchant Ships) 



