Garden State engineering firms hope the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's proposed $1.6 billion funding for infrastructure projects will help them refill their pipelines in the years to come.

A project to raise the Bayonne Bridge and allow it to accommodate larger cargo ships from the Panama Canal could as completed as early as late 2015 or early 2016, a top official at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Friday.

The renovation of the I-280/Route 21 interchange in Newark will be handled by Michael Baker Jr. Inc., a subsidiary of Michael Baker Corp., of Moon Township, Pa.

With operations already in Illinois and Minnesota, Student Transportation Inc. solidified its footprint in the Midwest with the acquisition of Wisconsin-based Dairyland Bus Inc.

Honeywell International Inc. announced a flurry of activity Monday and Tuesday in its aerospace and building solutions divisions through contracts in England and the United Arab Emirates.

As many as 1,000 jobs could become available in the next few years at the Port of New York and New Jersey, and two labor unions have vowed to give preferential hiring to veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Jim Brennan never thought his company would grow to more than 184 employees and $100 million in sales when he founded Sea Box Inc. in 1983.

By using federal crash cost data, AAA reported Friday that the cost of traffic crashes in New Jersey is twice that of congestion, despite the Garden State's notorious backups.

Private commuter bus companies are seeing a surge in riders today due to the suspension of train service on NJ Transit's Morris & Essex and Montclair-Boonton lines, stranding commuters in municipalities like Morristown and Montclair.