Jaxport

May was a record month for container volumes at JAXPORT, the Florida port serving the greater Jacksonville area and beyond. Total container movements rose by 37% year-over-year in May to more than 128,900 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), beating a previous record of 123,700 TEUs set in October...

JAXPORT hailed this week's announcement that the federal government had allocated $93 million for the next phase of deepening the Jacksonville, Florida, shipping channel to 47 feet from its current depth of 40 feet as "a milestone for the project and a major victory." The federal government now...

The Port of Jacksonville's largest marine terminal is set to grow even bigger after it received a $20 million federal grant aimed at attracting larger vessels. The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the Jacksonville Port Authority (Jaxport) the grant as part of the Better Utilizing...