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Maersk Line Begins JAXPORT Calls

Maersk Line commenced calling the Port of Jacksonville with the July 16 arrival of the container ship As Mariana at JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal. The addition of Maersk Line means nine of the world’s top 10 global container carriers now call the northeast Florida port.

Maersk Line’s TP10 is a new service between the U.S. East Coast and Northern China and South Korea. It ties Jacksonville directly to Xingang, Qingdao and Shanghai in China and Busan in South Korea. SSA Marine provides stevedoring services at Blount Island.

Nearly 1.0 million container TEUs moved through the Port of Jacksonville during FY 2013-14.

AS Mariana, shown here unloading containers at JAXPORT's Blount Island Marine Terminal, is operating under charter in Maersk Lines’ TP10 service to East Asia.
Photo/JAXPORT


Hamburg Süd Returns to Port Miami 

German ocean carrier Hamburg Süd resumed service to PortMiami on July 16 with the docking of the container ship Catherine Rickmers. The ship is operating under charter in a new weekly service that connects Miami to the Chinese ports of Qingdao, Ningbo, and Shanghai via the Panama Canal.

"We are happy to be back at PortMiami," said Robert Cannizzaro, Hamburg Süd’s Vice President of Marine and Terminal Operations. "PortMiami’s performance and productivity surpass Hamburg Süd’s service level standards.  Our company is fully committed to expanding to new markets. It is all about diversification, and our partners at PortMiami offer fast and reliable service critical for the delivery of time sensitive shipments." 
 
"We want to express a very warm welcome back to our partners at Hamburg Süd," said Port Director Juan M. Kuryla, PPM®. "PortMiami now offers world-class infrastructure to our growing line-up of cargo carriers, with new Super-Post Panamax gantry cranes, a new on-dock intermodal rail service, and new tunnels linking the port directly to the U.S. Interstate Highway System. In just a few weeks we will be the only container port south of Virginia at a depth of 50 feet. Hamburg Süd’s return is part of a larger pattern of ocean carriers repositioning to PortMiami in advance of the Panama Canal expansion."
 

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