Storrowing goes international

Yes, the Bayonne Bridge. Amazing job.
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https://youtu.be/APJBuEbbc3M
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When I last lived and worked in the area ~25 years ago, there was no problem for most of the existing shipping traffic. Somebody in the mix, however, had enough sense to see which way the wind was blowing (no pun intended) with the construction of larger & larger ships. I believe some of the biggest at that time (or soon after) could only get through under the bridge by folding down their hinged aerials. They realized the container/intermodal port could become marginalized and mean a big economic hit to the region.
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The bigger concern (or perhaps more immediate) that I remember from the time was the difficulty they had getting dredging permits for the shipping channels. A couple of centuries of heavy "industry" and you can imagine there was some amount of toxic silt lining the bottom of the harbor.
Since environmental regulations had tightened up at whatever previous point, the navigable channels to/around the container port (already a shallower part of the harbor than others*) were approaching bare-bones minimum for bigger ships of the time (maybe 40 feet?). There were a lot of regulatory hoops to jump through to get those channels dredged to 45 feet.
In fact, I think they might sometimes have had (unless I'm mixing in another story, which is entirely possible) a Catch-22 of wanting high tide for keel/bottom clearance, but high tide being bad for overhead clearance at the bridge!
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* spending debates and regional politics came into it, too, especially with the Port being a bi-state agency. A lot of noise was made about how the natural channel and basin at the underused Brooklyn Navy Yard was at 65 feet at that moment, with no dredging needed. The flip side, of course, being that there were no freight rail connections from Long Island to the contiguous mainland, which would mean MUCH extra truck traffic on area expressways. Which would lead into the history lesson recriminations that one of the only specific things (supposedly) the PA actually had been chartered to do decades earlier (before becoming a bridge operator, road tunnel operator, rapid transit operator, airport operator, and landlord) was to build a freight connection across NY harbor.