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To better serve existing and future port users, JAXPORT is continuing to improve its three marine terminals as well as the connections to and from the port.

To enhance existing infrastructure and equipment, JAXPORT’s FY2011 capital improvement program includes installation of two new gantry container cranes from Shanghai Port Machinery Co. (ZPMC), refurbishment of the rail infrastructure at Blount Island, and investments in wharf rehabilitation at Talleyrand and Blount Island.

At Dames Point, plans continue for the development of the Hanjin Container Terminal, a new, 90-acre facility to be constructed adjacent to the state-of-the-art, 158-acre TraPac Container Terminal. Both terminals offer shippers unprecedented containership access between Jacksonville and ports throughout Asia, particularly as the Panama Canal’s new locks open to Post-Panamax vessels later this decade.

Meanwhile, the TraPac Container Terminal features capacity to handle approximately 1 million TEUs annually, which benefits South Atlantic shippers looking to streamline their supply chains. Since the TraPac terminal opened in 2009, many retailers and 3PL firms have begun to take advantage of the global container services offered at the facility. In addition, more than 10 million square feet of warehousing and distribution space has been developed in Northeast Florida over the last few years, solidifying Jacksonville’s role as the major distribution focus among South Atlantic shippers.