Dozens gathered Monday morning to mark the completion of the Jacksonville Harbor Deepening Project through Blount Island.
Federal, state and local elected officials joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers , Jacksonville District and the Jacksonville Port Authority .The project has now deepened the federal shipping channel of the St. Johns River from Mayport Naval Station to JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal.The additional seven feet provides the channel depth needed for JAXPORT to accommodate larger container ships and allows existing ships calling Jacksonville to carry more cargo on board.
“What’s amazing here today is that it’s in our backyard,” Booth said. “We’re able to have folks in our Jacksonville office actually come out and actually celebrate a ribbon cutting.”“When you have a deeper draft and deeper channel, that’s going to allow larger vessels to come in and make efficient use of the port,” Booth said.The deepening adds to JAXPORT’s goal of building the port of the future.
“Jacksonville has moved to the next level,” Newby said. “This has been started since 2005 and to see this day coming is great.”The project will also create or protect 15,000 jobs throughout the supply chain — including trucking, warehousing and distribution. In coordination with deepening, JAXPORT completed more than $100 million in berth enhancements this month to enable the SSA Jacksonville Container Terminal at Blount Island to simultaneously accommodate two post-Panamax container ships.
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