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Jacksonville's main shipping channel is a 23-mile stretch of the St. Johns River extending from the mouth of the Atlantic Ocean to the Jacksonville Port Authority's (JAXPORT's) Talleyrand Marine Terminal just north of downtown Jacksonville.
Click to view JAXPORT's Interactive Harbor Map. As the owner and manager of Jacksonville's public ship terminals, JAXPORT considers maintaining a deep harbor essential to keeping Jacksonville's port viable. A competitive harbor depth allows Jacksonville to accommodate the water depth (draft) requirements of fully-loaded cargo vessels which currently call Jacksonville's port, and to meet the needs of new, even larger cargo ships which will seek to call Jacksonville in the future. The St. Johns River harbor deepening project, begun in 2002 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has so far deepened about 14 miles of Jacksonville’s main shipping channel from the mouth of the river to Drummond Point to a maintained depth of 40 feet. A proposal to extend the harbor deepening from Drummond Point to JAXPORT’s Talleyrand Marine Terminal was authorized by the U.S. Congress in December 2005. Deepening the final stretch of Jacksonville’s main shipping channel from 38 feet to a maintained depth of 40 feet will be completed in 2008. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is also studying the impact of deepening the St. Johns River main channel to 45 feet. The local share of the St. Johns River harbor project is not requiring any local tax dollars. Total project costs are shared by JAXPORT and the Federal government with economic assistance from the State of Florida. For more information about Jacksonville's harbor deepening project, please email us or contact us by telephone at (904) 357-3080. |
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