JAXPORT

JAXPORT partners with SSA on 25-year container terminal deal

The Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) Board of Directors approved a long-term agreement with terminal operator SSA Marine for the development and operation of a $238.7 million international container terminal at JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal.

Specifically, the SSA Jacksonville International Gateway Terminal is an expansion of SSA Marine’s current leasehold at Blount Island and will offer deepwater berthing space to accommodate the larger container ships calling JAXPORT from Asia...

https://safety4sea.com/jaxport-partners-with-ssa-on-25-year-container-terminal-deal/

JAXPORT announces record Jan container volume

During the 2019 State of the Port event, Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) CEO Eric Green announced that JAXPORT has achieved its best ever January container volumes, with total container movements increasing 16 percent over the same period last year. Nearly 121,400 twenty-foot equivalent units (or TEUs, the industry standard for measuring containers) moved through JAXPORT in January 2019.

The port’s Asian container volumes continue to show significant growth, up 17 percent year–to–date with...

https://container-news.com/jaxport-announces-record-jan-container-volume/

JAXPORT achieves record January for container and auto volumes

Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) announced that JAXPORT has achieved its best ever January container volumes, with overall container movements increasing 16% over the same period last year. About 121,400 TEUs moved through JAXPORT in January 2019.

The port’s Asian container volumes also showed significant growth, up by 17% year–to–date with almost 164,000 TEUs moved so far in Fiscal Year 2019. In addition, JAXPORT’s Asian trade has increased an average of 14% annually over the past five...

https://safety4sea.com/jaxport-achieves-record-january-for-container-and-auto-volumes/

JAXPORT connects Florida business community

More than 120 Northeast Florida small business leaders participated in JAXPORT’s inaugural Small and Emerging Business Appreciation Day. The daylong seminar was held Tuesday, Feb 6, at JAXPORT’s Cruise Terminal and connected area small businesses with valuable training and resources.

Business development experts from the City of Jacksonville, Florida Small Business Development Council, Florida State Minority Supplier Development Council and other area public agencies were on site offering...

http://container-news.com/jaxport-connects-florida-business-community/

Crowley’s LNG-fueled ship completes its maiden voyage

The second of Crowley Maritime Corp.’s new combination container/roll-on roll-off “ConRo” ships – MV Taíno, one of the first of its kind to be powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) – completed its maiden voyage to Puerto Rico on Friday morning, Jan. 11. The successful transit puts a historic capstone on the company’s Commitment Class modernization project and begins a new era of world-class supply chain services between the island commonwealth, U.S. mainland and the Caribbean Basin.

MV Taíno,...

http://container-news.com/crowley-lng-fueled-ship-completes-maiden-voyage/

JAXPORT to receive funds for harbor deepening

The US Army Corps of Engineers has granted $46 million for the Jacksonville Harbor deep draft navigation project. This will be additional to the $50 million in federal funding awarded to JAXPORT for the project over the past two fiscal years.

Congressman Rutherford has ensured that JAXPORT keeps on receiving federal support for this deep dredge project. The deepening project already attributes 3 miles on schedule dredging and when it’s completed it will be able to accommodate mega-sized...

https://safety4sea.com/jaxport-to-receive-funds-for-harbor-deepening/

Cancer treatment equipment through JAXPORT

Highly trained stevedores recently moved state-of-the-art cancer treatment equipment worth $25 million through JAXPORT’s Talleyrand Marine Terminal.

The proton therapy equipment, which was unloaded in three pieces, is en route to the University of Florida Health Proton Therapy Institute in Jacksonville where it will be used to provide an advanced form of radiation treatment. The equipment represents the largest expansion of cancer treatment capabilities in the facility’s history.

The pieces have...

http://container-news.com/cancer-treatment-equipment-jaxport/

JAXPORT recognized 46 veteran employees

On November 8, JAXPORT recognized its 46 veteran employees with a special Veterans Day luncheon served by the port’s executive team. JAXPORT’s senior leadership has served lunch to this group in gratitude for their military service for the past six years.

More than a quarter of JAXPORT’s 152 employees are veterans and they represent all five branches of the military. JAXPORT’s veterans have a combined 522 years of military service.

“It is a privilege and honor to serve our veteran colleagues...

http://container-news.com/jaxport-recognized-46-veteran-employees/

JAXPORT breaks again its year-record

JAXPORT’s public seaport terminals achieved record growth in container volumes, recording double-digit growth during the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2018.

JAXPORT moved nearly 1.3 million containers, a 23 percent increase over 2017. JAXPORT has set container volume records the past three years.

When combined with the containers handled through private terminals, the Port of Jacksonville is Florida’s largest container port complex.

The Asian container trade continues to show significant growth,...

http://container-news.com/jaxport-breaks-year-record/

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