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Terminal Operations: Canaveral, Jacksonville, North Carolina

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Port Canaveral Scrap Metal Exporter Loads First Vessel

Port Canaveral Scrap Terminal LLC (PCST) loaded its first cargo on January 8 – 20,000 tons of scrap metal aboard the bulk carriers Grikos for export to Turkey, where it will be used to create finished steel products.

PCST leases four acres in the north cargo area of the port under an agreement signed last September with the Canaveral Port Authority (Advisory, September 23, 2014) that includes a 100,000-ton minimum annual guarantee.

The terminal operator, which has invested $1.8 million in the facility, expects to export about 130,000 tons of scrap metal annually. Local stevedore Ambassador Services Inc. (ASI) handles loading operations for PCST. The company employs 17 people at the terminal.


Bulk carrier Grikos loads first Port Canaveral Scrap Terminal’s first cargo.
Photo/Port Canaveral


Biggest Ship to Call JAXPORT Arrives at TraPac Terminal



MOL Competence at JAXPORT’S TraPac Container Terminal.
Photo/JAXPORT

The largest container vessel ever to call the Port of Jacksonville docked at TraPac Container Terminal on January 6. The 8,100 TEU MOL Competence arrived at JAXPORT from Southeast Asia after transiting the Suez Canal and calls at other U.S. East Coast ports.

MOL Competence has a length of 316 meters/1,037 feet, beam of 45.6 meters/149.6 feet, summer free board draft of 14.5 meters/47.6 feet and deadweight capacity of 90,630 metric tons. It was delivered in 2008 and is registered in The Bahamas.

TraPac Jacksonville Vice President and General Manager Dennis Kelly says the Competence and other post-Panamax sized ships calling on Jacksonville as part of a regular rotation through the Suez Canal "demonstrate the port’s strategic advantages for accommodating the larger ships calling on the U.S. East Coast."

Opened in January 2009, the 158-acre TraPac Container Terminal is operated under a lease agreement with the port authority by a subsidiary of the Tokyo-based shipping line Mitsui OSK Line (MOL). It is served by 2,400 feet/730 meters of berth space, six gantry cranes, and alongside MLW depths of 40 feet/12 meters. Throughput capacity is approximately 800,000 TEUs annually.

North Carolina: Asheville Brewery Moves Components through the Port of Wilmington


Belgium Brewery tanks being loaded at the Port of Wilmington for transport to the brewery construction site in Asheville (NC).
Photo/North Carolina State Ports Authority

The North Carolina State Ports Authority is playing an important role in the construction of a New Belgium Brewing Company brewery in Asheville (NC). Brewing tanks arrived at the Port of Wilmington from Rotterdam and were trucked the some 350 miles distance to the plant site. The tanks vary in weight from 2,000 pounds to more than 34,000 pounds.

"This is a unique undertaking for our port because of the complex requirements of the equipment being moved," said Chief Executive Officer Paul Cozza. "Not only does it show our attention to detail but it also touts the connectivity from the mountains to the coast of North Carolina."

Goods moving through the North Carolina State Ports Authority helped to contribute more than $14 billion in gross revenues for North Carolina businesses in fiscal year 2014. $344 million of that contribution was made to the western part of the state, according to a recent study by the Institute for Transportation Research and Education. The study also found that the North Carolina State Ports Authority both directly and indirectly supports 1,700 jobs and $3 million in local taxes to western North Carolina.
 

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