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JAXPORT Raises the Roof… and Other Building Parts, Too!

Highly trained master riggers recently moved 42 large steel pieces that will ultimately form a Northeast Florida manufacturing facility. The cargo moved through the heavy lift and specialty cargo berth at JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal, home of one of the nation’s highest weight-bearing capacity docks. Workers employed by stevedoring company Portus lifted the pieces one at a time from the Thorco Shipping general cargo vessel Genius Star XI before placing ... [+]

First Trains Arrive JAXPORT’s New $30m Rail Terminal

JAXPORT's newly completed Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF) at Dames Point is being used in support of a high-level military training exercise this month in advance of its official opening to commercial container movements later this year. Prior to the start of the ICTF’s commercial operations, JAXPORT is partnering ... [+]

Oversized steel tanks move through JAXPORT

Highly trained master riggers moved nine oversized specialty tanks through JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal, home of one of the nation’s highest weight-bearing capacity docks. The new pressurized steel evaporator tanks, which arrived at JAXPORT from Zhangjiagang, China, are 45-feet in length, 20-feet in diameter, and weigh 220,000 pounds each. Workers employed ... [+]

JAXPORT Joins USDA Cold-Treated Produce Pilot Program

The Port of Jacksonville, Florida, or JAXPORT, has received approval from the federal government to import select cold-treated produce from certain South American markets for the first time. Starting Oct. 1, 2015, Jacksonville began participating in this pilot program run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, ... [+]

Crowley Partners with GTI Collaborative for LNG Training at JaxPort

Crowley Maritime Corp. recently participated as one of several Gas Technology Institute (GTI) funding collaborators on September 21 to bring liquefied natural gas (LNG) awareness training to 150 stakeholders and first responders in Jacksonville. GTI, in conjunction with the Florida State College at Jacksonville Fire Academy of the South (FAS), ... [+]

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