Thursday, October 30, 2014
Jaxport’s Asian container volume up 20 percent in 2014
The port of Jacksonville announced that Asian container volume through the port has grown 20 percent year-over-year.
Jaxport offers direct trade with Asian ports through both the Panama and Suez canals and says 12 of the 18 global ocean carriers that service the Asia-U.S. trade call at the Florida port.
In the fiscal year ending in September, 272,524 TEUs were moved through the port, compared to 226,938 last year, according to the statement. The Asian container trade accounted for nearly 30 percent of Jaxport’s container trade in 2014. In the previous fiscal year, it accounted for 24 percent.
The port has posted an average of 28.5 percent annual growth in Asian container volumes during the past five years.
The port authority has been tracking of how much container volume comes from the tenants on its docks, said Jaxport communications director Nancy Rubin, who said this was the resource used to determine the Asian container volume statistics.
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