The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is asking the U.S. Commerce Department to fund operation and maintenance (O&M) of a system that measures tides and currents this year and include funding in future budgets. Foye Patrick Foye, the authority's executive director, said in a letter to Commerce Acting Secretary Rebecca Blank that local sponsors are no longer to sustain the expenditure for the Physical Oceanographic Real Time System (PORTS) that was installed by the ...