Friday, May 6, 2011

Q&A with Dennis Kelly - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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Yes. The experts are predicting the global economic slowdown will runinto 2010. How will the Jacksonvillew Port Authority fit in with your internationaltraffifc forecast? Jaxport has a lot to offer the internationapl trade community, especially with Hanjin Shippinb Company Ltd. building a second container terminal. we have a huge challenge ahead of us establishintg new global trade lanes into With Savannah being ourmain competition, the entirr logistics community will have to replicate what the stated of Georgia and the Georgia Port Authority have so successfullyt done to attract many major What’s in store for TraPac’s Jacksonville operation for the cominhg year?
Everything is in place to have TraPac’s first vessell work January 12, 2009. Therefore the service that has been callingbon APM-Blount Island since July 2008 will relocated to TraPac-Dames Point. At this time this is the only vesse l service wehave scheduled. How will your new terminal impacft the surrounding logistics industries inNortheasgt Florida? As we all a few major importers have alreaduy relocated or enlarged their Jacksonville distribution This will continue when more and more new shipping linesz establish a Jacksonville service, and in turn, more and more importerd will see the businesas opportunities in Northeast Florida.
What does the Port of Jacksonville need to do in the next year to get closee to reaching its goal of being the thirde largest port on theEast Coast? Two critica areas: The river must be deepened to at leastf 50 feet by 2014 to allow post-Panamaz ships to be able to call, and highway and rail servicd to Dames Point needs to be

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