Stevedores at the Port of Jacksonville are unloading 11,000 tons of aluminum ingots from a vessel. It is the largest shipment of aluminum ingots at the port in five years, the port authority said.
The breakbulk shipment from South America is more than twice the tonnage the port has seen in the past. The aluminum will be transported to plants near St. Augustine, on the east coast of Florida, and a facility near Tampa, on the Gulf Coast, where the ingots will be smelted and used to make cans, signs and automobile parts.
JaxPort handles large aluminum shipment
