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Cargo Operations: Jacksonville

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JAXPORT Hosts its Largest Container Ship Ever

The 8,800-TEU MOL Northern Juvenile set a record April 24 as the largest container cargo ship to ever call the Port of Jacksonville. The ship docked at JAXPORT’S TraPac Container Terminal following a voyage from Asia to the U.S. East Coast via the Suez Canal.

The Liberian-flag vessel was built in 2009 and has a length of 318 meters/1,043 feet, beam of 43 meters/141 feet, maximum draft of 14.5 meters/47.6 feet, and deadweight capacity of 108,827 metric tons.

While in Jacksonville, the ship transferred thousands of tons of cargo using the services of hundreds of workers. The port authority notes, however, that nearly 22,000 tons of inbound cargo and a similar quantity of outbound cargo had to be transferred in "another state" because of the constraints of 40 foot depth of the St. Johns River shipping channel. A federal project to increase the depth to 47 feet to accommodate larger container vessels fully loaded is in the design and engineering stage.


MOL Northern Juvenile, the largest container ship to call Jacksonville, shown docked at JAXPORT’s TradPac Container Terminal on April 24.
Photo/JAXPORT
 

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