The Shift to JAXPORT
With enhanced port services connecting
global trade lanes, Jacksonville, Fla. is
developing a burgeoning reputation as
America’s Logistics Center.
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Ships calling at the Port of San Juan have enjoyed an
historically strong trade with Jacksonville, Fla.
JAXPORT 2011 2009 Magazine
Directory
Importers,
exporters finding
logistics advantages
in Jacksonville
By Paul Scott Abbott
political leaders in this country, who are also awakening to
T
the inevitability of investing in our future.”
hanks to its unique ability to serve as a hub for
Leather goods leader Coach Inc. has been sold on
inbound and outbound cargo and for distribution of
the advantages of Jacksonville since 1995, when the
goods throughout the U.S. Southeast and beyond,
firm opened its original
it is little wonder that Jacksonville is developing a
300,000-square-foot
burgeoning reputation as America’s Logistics Center.
distribution center in Jack-
With increasing east-west ocean services augmenting
sonville, and the company’s
longstanding north-south capabilities, JAXPORT and its new
top logistics professional
state-of-the-industry container terminals are strategically
believes the area and its
positioned at the crossroads of global commerce. And, just
port offer still more benefits
as importantly, goods efficiently and cost-effectively move in
today.
and out of Jacksonville via multiple highway and rail options.
Jim Prior, Coach’s Divi-
“JAXPORT and Jacksonville are increasingly top of mind
sional Vice President for
for shippers as word spreads of the efficiencies we offer,”
Transportation and Trade
said JAXPORT Chief Executive Officer Paul Anderson. “We
Compliance,
are relentlessly sending this message of shifting opportunity
Coach now has 850,000
to potential business partners around the world and to our
square feet of distribution
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that
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JAXPORT served by
30-plus ocean carriers
J
AXPORT facilities are served by more than 30 steamship lines, combining to offer
services throughout Asia, Australia, Middle East, Mediterranean, Europe, Africa, South
America, Central America and Mexico, and Caribbean, including Puerto Rico.
Ocean carriers serving JAXPORT include:
Abou Merhi Lines
Aliança Lines Inc.
American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier (ARC)
APL
Atlantic Container Line (ACL)
CMA CGM
COSCO
Crowley Liner Service
CSAV
Eukor
Frontier Liner Services
Great American Lines (GALI)
Grieg Star Shipping
Gulf Africa Line
Hamburg Süd N.A.
Hanjin Shipping
HMM
Hoegh Autoliners
Horizon Lines
K-Line
Liberty Global
Mediterranean Shipping (MSC)
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
MOL (America) Inc.
Nordana Line
NYK Line (NA) Inc.
SeaFreight Line
Sea Star Line
Spliethoff
Trailer Bridge
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Lines
Yang Ming
Michaels Stores Inc., North America’s No. 1 arts and crafts
retailer, uses more than 500,000 square feet of Jacksonville distribution facilities to serve its stores throughout the Southeast, as far
north as the District of Columbia and west to Louisiana, according
to Rich Markovich, Michaels’ Director of International Logistics and
Compliance.
“We made the strategic move to consolidate operations into
Jacksonville as the port has developed greater inbound capability
from Asia,” Markovich said.
“A real point of strength is the
workforce in the Jacksonville
area – on top of the dynamics
that make Jacksonville a very
attractive place when it comes
to domestic transportation.”
facilities in Jacksonville, serving stores throughout the United States
Mike Bauer, North American
and Canada.
Logistics Manager for UPM, the
Prior pointed to the 2008 introduction of MOL’s Asian service
world’s leading manufacturer
into Jacksonville as a key development, saying, “We took advan-
of graphic paper products,
tage of the very first ship, and we’ve probably had containers on
cited favorable backhaul inter-
the service every week since.”
MOL’s 158-acre TraPac Container Terminal is to soon be joined
at JAXPORT’s Dames Point Marine Terminal by another leading
edge container terminal, to serve ships of Hanjin Shipping Co. Ltd.
and its alliance partners.
Prior said he is impressed by the “very easy out and in” access
between Dames Point docks and Coach’s distribution center, about
15 to 20 minutes away; excellent JAXPORT security; quick availability of containers at the port; and competitive trucking rates.
Not only is Jacksonville within an eight-hour drive of 55 million
consumers, it also gives Coach three-day delivery to stores in California with two-driver teams of truckload carriers.
modal and trucking rates and
Jim Prior, Divisional Vice
President for Transportation and
Trade Compliance, Coach
rail options offered by CSX
Transportation
and
Norfolk
Southern Railway among attributes that make Jacksonville
ideal for serving the Southeast, as well as more competitive for
serving Midwest customers than mid-Atlantic ports.
UPM annually brings some 500,000 tons of graphic papers
from Finland via Spliethoff vessels into Jacksonville’s port and the
distribution facilities of Jacksonville-based Seaonus.
“I think Seaonus and JAXPORT have been excellent partners with
UPM,” Bauer said. “We like to think we have a competitive advantage
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and that our supply chain is
facility
one of our best selling points.”
building in Kingsbury, Ind.,
Seaonus Vice President
about 40 miles southeast of
for Business Development
Rick Sharp, Seaonus Vice
President for Business Development and Customer Relation
the
company
is
Chicago.
and Customer Relations Rick
In addition to bringing
Sharp said his firm, which
imports into the Midwest,
operates
330,000
this
effort
square feet of multi-temper-
about
tate
outbound
ature facilities and 720,000
of poultry, pork, beef and
square feet of dry ware-
other
house space in Jacksonville,
the Midwest to Puerto Rico
is looking to leverage Jack-
and
sonville’s advantages to link
markets via Jacksonville’s
markets from Latin America
port.
to Europe with the U.S. Midwest
in addition to the Southeast.
Seaonus is partnering with CSX in an initiative to offer 56-hour
should
commodities
non-U.S.
facili-
shipments
from
Caribbean
Raul Alfonso,
JAXPORT Senior Director,
Trade Development & Global
Marketing
“For our growing customer
base, the ability to formulate a
cost-saving strategy, leveraging
transit time between Jacksonville and the Chicago area. By
different products of their supply chains, represents new efficien-
mid-2012, Seaonus hopes to make this link via a distribution
cies that fit today’s economic demands,” said Raul Alfonso, Senior
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Operator And Vessel Stevedore
TraPac
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and its terminal operating partner, TraPac, to load and unload
container ships sailing to and from ports in and around
the world.
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Director, Trade Development and Global Marketing. “Simply said,
with great growth potential
they can do more with less and such rationalization is setting a
and a central geographic
new shift to the pace of logistics around JAXPORT.”
location.
Carriers are also taking note of Jacksonville’s cost efficient logis-
“There are a lot of reasons
tical connections. “JAXPORT has proven to be critical not only for
why Jacksonville provides a
exports but also import cargo, especially with our new, direct, five-
good logistical atmosphere,”
day transit from Puerto Limon, Costa Rica,” said David G. Ross,
Barnett
Executive Vice President of Miami-based SeaFreight Agencies (USA)
speaking, it is an exciting
Inc. “This service places imported fruit at the doorstep of many of
distribution node.”
the major distribution centers
in the Southeast.”
Most
wide
Another longtime player
said.
“Logistically
recently,
nation-
third-party
logistics
provider
Saddle
Creek
in the Jacksonville distri-
Corp. opened in August a
bution
375,000-square-foot, multi-
arena,
PenserSC,
which started at the Port
Roy Schleicher, JAXPORT
Executive Vice President
customer distribution center near the Port of Jacksonville.
of Jacksonville in 1908 as
JAXPORT Executive Vice President Roy Schleicher said, “The
Peninsular Warehouse, now
distribution segment of the industry is forging forward in Jackson-
controls more than 1 million
ville because of our location, a growing population and the new
feet of Jacksonville facilities.
services that we offer to our customers. Our new east-west trade
Shawn Barnett, PenserSC’s
capabilities can connect very nicely with our north-south trade and
Chief Executive Officer, said
establish new relationships and partnerships for the future. Jacksonville offers superior
“The abundance of third-party logistics companies and ware-
distribution rates, better infraShawn Barnett, PenserSC’s Chief
Executive Officer
structure, an excellent port
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house capacity in this area truly makes Jacksonville America’s
Logistics Center.”
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
4,473 +/- acres ideal for manufacturing,
industrial-related and supply chain logistics end users.
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New I-10 interchange for direct access
More than $180 million spent on industrial-scale infrastructure
Minutes from I-95, I-295 and 50 miles to I-75
Adjacent to one of the longest runways in Florida (12,500 ft)
Enterprise Zone and future FTZ magnet site
Home to 1.3M SF of brand new, state of the art facilities
(Bridgestone SE Regional DC and SAFT Manufacturing plant)
• Central demographic location in Southeast region
50 million consumers within 1 day truck drive
For more information on development opportunities,
please contact Ron Barton, JEDC Executive Director,
at 904-630-1979 or [email protected].
www.jaxdevelopment.org • www.alliancefloridacecil.com
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