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JAXPORT expands funding for harbor deepening

30 July 2020

JAXPORT was awarded $75 million this week to help deepen its harbor.

The Jacksonville, Florida, port authority called the $35 million grant and $40 million loan approved by the City Council a “historic win for our community and the 15,000 jobs that will be created or protected” by the project.

JAXPORT said the harbor deepening, which will take the 13-mile shipping channel from 40 feet to 47 feet and allow larger container ships to call, is expected to be completed in 2023. The U.S. Army Corps of...

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FreightWaves Flashback 1964: 6-ton steel cutter heads shipped by air

24 July 2020

The many industries that make up the world of freight have undergone tremendous change over the past several decades. Each Friday, FreightWaves explores the archives of American Shipper’s nearly 70-year-old collection of shipping and maritime publications to showcase interesting freight stories of long ago.

The following is an excerpt from the July 1964 edition of the Jacksonville Seafarer.

Steel cutter heads weighing 6 tons move overseas by air

Have you ever seen a Peacock fly? “Peacock Rock...

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FreightWaves Flashback 1955: Shipside to Chicago in three nights

3 July 2020

The following is an excerpt from the July 1955 edition of The Jacksonville Seafarer.

Shipside to Chicago in three nights

New and stronger ties between the Port of Jacksonville and the fertile...

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Update: One dead in shooting outside Amazon fulfillment center in Florida

30 June 2020

A prospective Amazon employee was killed in Jacksonville, Florida, Monday afternoon while standing in line to apply for a job.

“A 20-year-old Black male victim was standing outside of the Amazon fulfillment center [at 2 p.m.]. He was in line for job applications with about six others. Two Black male suspects in their early 20s exited a silver vehicle that was in the parking lot. These suspects ran directly up to this victim and indiscriminately began shooting their handguns in his direction. The...

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Breaking News: Two people shot outside Amazon fulfillment center

29 June 2020

Television news stations in Jacksonville, Florida, are reporting at least two people were shot about 2 p.m. Monday at an Amazon fulfillment center on the city’s north side.

One of the two people shot reportedly has been critically injured.

A photograph said to have been taken by an Amazon employee and sent to News4Jax shows shattered glass in a break room.

A woman who was at the fulfillment center for job orientation told Action News Jax that she saw a man dressed all in black “just start...

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FreightWaves Flashback 1963: Baby chicks⁠ — big export business

24 May 20208 May 2020

The following is an excerpt from the May 1963 edition of The Florida Journal of Commerce.

JACKSONVILLE — A few years ago the chicken and egg business was a sideline to farming. Generally a pet...

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