The ship MOL Vision arrived six months ahead of the scheduled opening of the new 158-acre TraPac Container Terminal at the Jacksonville Port Authority’s Dames Point property. It traveled from Ningbo, China, through the Panama Canal before reaching Jacksonville, its first U.S. port of call.
| A container is removed from the MOL Vision at the Port of Jacksonville. |
JAXPORT Executive Director Rick Ferrin, who was at the dock to meet the MOL vessel, said it was “a momentous occasion” that will be a “major economic stimulus for our region.”
As the future base of MOL’s U.S. South Atlantic port activities, TraPac will have a yearly capacity of 800,000 containers and double JAXPORT’s container handling capacity.
