JAXPORT inks deal with SSA Marine
The 25-year contract, which includes a facilities lease and equipment sublease, calls for a $238.7 million investment, including the operator putting $28 million toward the harbor deepening project.
The 25-year contract, which includes a facilities lease and equipment sublease, calls for a $238.7 million investment, including the operator putting $28 million toward the harbor deepening project.
The Swiss engineering group’s MoorMaster systems are scheduled to enter service in 2020.
A facility expected to be finished in 2020 will move about 120,000 vehicles annually through the Tradepoint Atlantic terminal.
Shipping lines with direct service calls to the port and that do not transship within 250 nautical miles are eligible for the incentives.
Built at a cost of $1 billion, the Moín terminal will be used to move refrigerated cargo to Europe and Asia
The reduction, effective March 29, is the fourth one of 2019 announced by the Panama Canal Authority following low rainfall in December.
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Witnesses gave the Senate Subcommittee on Transportation and Safety a variety of recommendations to improve intermodal infrastructure.
The service will be paired with APL’s Eagle Express X transpacific service.
The ship Kauai will be moving cargo to and from Hawaii while Matsonia undergoes repairs.
Congress asked to stop any legislation allowing larger and heavier trucks on U.S. highways.
The project, which is expected to be completed by March 2020, will deepen the harbor from 35 to 40 feet.
JAXPORT leaders at the annual State of the Port address report work may be completed two years ahead of the original schedule.
With deeper channels, longer and wider ships will be able to move to and from berths without having to wait for high tides.
The ship, which was damaged by a container fire in early January, currently is at a yard in the Bahamas.
A study finds year-over-year growth of 8.2 percent for freight traffic and 3.6 percent for number of vessels that transited the waterway.
The call will be a part of the company’s Pacific Express 3 service, which will create the “first direct connection” between the Vietnam market and central Florida.
Maritime groups tell California legislators not to give special treatment to Oakland Athletics.
SSA Terminals, operator of Oakland International Container Terminal, submitted a $30 million order last week for three 300-foot tall gantry cranes.
The expansion project will lengthen the deepwater turnaround area by about 1,500 feet and allow for up to five new cargo berths.