Hong Kong-based ship owner Seaspan has taken delivery of the 15,000TEU container ship named […]
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Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) has announced a new record with the arrival of the ONE Stork, marking the largest container ship to ever call Jacksonville. The ship is operated by…
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The Jacksonville Port Authority on Tuesday celebrated the largest vessel ever to call the Florida port.
The container ship, One Stork, has a carrying capacity of 14,000 twenty-foot equivalent units. Previously the largest ship to call Jaxport had a capacity of 11,923 TEUs.
One Stork is the first of nine larger vessels that will call Jaxport through the EC5 container service operated by The Alliance. The container ship is operated by Ocean Network Express (ONE) within The Alliance, a partnership...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/jaxport-welcomes-largest-container-ship-to-call
The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Jacksonville District presented JAXPORT with a US$35 million refund for unused prepayments from the recently completed Jacksonville Harbor Deepening project.
JAXPORT is actively working with the City of Jacksonville and the State of Florida. Both of them contributed funding toward the project, to determine their share of the refund amount as outlined in the project agreements.
Completed in May 2022, the project deepened 11 miles of the federal shipping...
https://container-news.com/jaxport-refunded-us35-million-for-jacksonville-harbor-deepening-project/
During JAXPORT Board of Directors meeting, State of Florida chief financial officer Jimmy Patronis, Aruba Prime Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes, and other dignitaries from the island of Aruba joined leadership from JAXPORT and Eagle LNG Partners LLC (Eagle LNG) to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
JAXPORT and Aruba are trying to mutually promote business and tourism opportunities between the two regions, share best practices on port operations and environmental sustainability, and explore...
https://container-news.com/jaxport-aruba-ink-agreement-to-grow-business-connections/
FlexCold, a cold storage warehousing company, will expand its facility in the port of Jacksonville (JAXPORT), located in Florida in the United States.
The facility is the first one of the company and the planned expansion is expected to more than double the overall building footprint to over 32,500 m², bringing the total number of pallet positions to 55,000, up from the initial 25,000 positions.
The facility is located 4.8 kilometres from the port.
Moreover, the FlexCold-Jacksonville expansion...
https://container-news.com/flexcold-announces-expansion-of-jacksonvilles-facility/
JAXPORT has secured complete funding for the project to raise the Fulton Cut Crossing powerlines over the St. Johns River adjacent to JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal.
According to a port’s statement, the Jacksonville City Council voted to award JAXPORT a US$10 million grant toward the project. The City will also provide a US$12.5 million loan and a US$5 million bridge loan, which will be repaid by JAXPORT.
This funding is in addition to a US$22.5 million grant awarded to JAXPORT by the...
UK-based Ellerman City Liners is now offering direct container service at the Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) to and from three destinations in Europe.
Ellerman will begin calling the SSA Jacksonville Container Terminal at JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal with the arrival of the container ship SC Mara scheduled in late December.
According to JAXPORT, the bi-weekly service offers premium transit times of 13 to 17 days from North Europe to Jacksonville.
The port rotation will be Antwerp...
https://container-news.com/ellerman-city-liners-launches-new-europe-us-service/
Ports in the Southeast are bracing for what is expected to be a Category 1 hurricane when Nicole makes landfall in Florida late Wednesday night or early Thursday.
Condition Zulu, meaning the gates are closed and no operations are taking place, has gone into effect in Florida at Port Miami, Port Canaveral, Port Everglades and Jaxport. The ports of Savannah and Brunswick in Georgia and Charleston in South Carolina on Wednesday were at condition X-Ray, which means gale-force winds are expected...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/florida-ports-close-as-nicole-nears
When Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc across the Houston area in 2017, Colin Rizzo had never seen anything like it before.
Rizzo is Port Houston’s director of emergency management and responsible for planning and directing the facility’s emergency and disaster preparedness.
Harvey was a Category 4 hurricane that made landfall in Texas and Louisiana in late August 2017, causing catastrophic flooding and more than 100 deaths.
“Harvey was almost just the opposite [of other hurricanes] in that it was...