JAXPORT, aka the Port of Jacksonville, and the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Jacksonville District held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday to mark the completion of the Jacksonville Harbor…
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Τhe completion of the Jacksonville Harbor Deepening Project through JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal (US) is now a fact.
The project deepened 17.7 km of the federal shipping channel to a depth of 14.3 m from its previous depth of 12.1 m.
Larger ships can now call Blount Island and at the same time, ships that could already go to Jacksonville due to their size can now carry more cargo on board. In parallel, the project includes a new rotation basin that allows larger ships to turn around at...
Jaxport on Monday celebrated the completion of the deepening of 11 miles of the federal shipping channel to 47 feet.
The St. Johns River shipping channel from Mayport Naval Station to Jacksonville, Florida’s, Blount Island had been 40 feet deep.
Port authority officials were joined by local, state and federal leaders as well as representatives of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District in a ribbon-cutting Monday.
“Florida’s seaports are economic drivers for our state and serve as...
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The 1,400 TEU container ship MSC Reet II is the first vessel in MSC’s Florida Gulf Feeder service that made its inaugural call to the Jacksonville Port Authority on 26 April.
The Florida Gulf Feeder service calls the SSA Jacksonville Container Terminal (JCT) at JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal bi-weekly with JAXPORT partner SSA Atlantic providing stevedoring services at Blount Island.
The service connects Jacksonville to major transshipment hubs in the Dominican Republic and The Bahamas....
https://container-news.com/mscs-florida-gulf-feeder-service-completes-first-call-at-jaxport/
CEO Eric Green said Jaxport is paving the way to a future serving more — and bigger — ships with its biggest growth initiative, the deepening of the Jacksonville, Florida, shipping channel, on track for a May completion.
“The solution to the nation’s port congestion problem is right here in this room,” Green said during his State of the Port address Tuesday. “As the industry looks to combat everything from truck capacity issues to labor and equipment challenges, protecting the supply chain is a...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/jaxport-lays-out-big-plans-as-channel-deepening-nears-completion
Ceres Terminals will lease and operate a 158-acre container facility at the Dames Point Marine Terminal at JAXPORT in Florida for the next 20 years.
JAXPORT’s board of directors, which oversees the port in Jacksonville, Florida, unanimously agreed to the $60 million deal between Ceres and the port in which Ceres will modernize the TraPac Jacksonville container terminal. A separate transaction calls for Ceres to purchase the terminal’s previous leaseowner, TraPac Jacksonville, from Mitsui O.S.K....
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ceres-jaxport-agree-to-20-year-lease-of-container-terminal
North American terminal operator Ceres will invest millions to modernize a 158-acre container terminal that connects Jacksonville to destinations in Asia and South America. The post Ceres to invest…
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The Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) in Florida handled more than 1.4 million twenty-foot equivalent units in its fiscal year 2021, an all-time record for the port and 10% higher from 2020.
JAXPORT’s 2021 fiscal year ended Sept. 30.
“Achieving a container record and strong vehicle volumes while maintaining our efficiencies — all in the middle of a pandemic — speaks to the resiliency and capability of Jacksonville’s maritime community,” said JAXPORT CEO Eric Green in a release. “Our port...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/floridas-jaxport-handles-record-container-volume-in-2021
Hapag-Lloyd and CMA CGM have announced two services are “temporarily” bypassing Savannah, Georgia.
CMA CGM said Wednesday that its Amerigo service, which connects the western Mediterranean to the U.S. East Coast, will “temporarily stop calling Savannah due to severe congestion in this port — eight to 10 days — and in order to protect schedule integrity and weekly sailing frequency.”
The service instead will call South Carolina’s Port of Charleston, beginning with the scheduled arrival of the CMA...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hapag-lloyd-and-cma-cgm-temporarily-steering-clear-of-savannah
Two Southeast U.S. ports are seeking to expand container capacity in a bid to reach customers needing access to the Southeast and Midwest markets.
Port of Savannah to expand container capacity by an additional 1.6 million TEUshttps://www.freightwaves.com/news/southeast-us-ports-seek-to-ramp-up-container-capacity