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North American East Coast Regional Market Shares. Source: Individual Ports
Mid-Atlantic Ports Pick Up Market Share

Press Releases

Worldwide Terminals Fernandina - Port of Fernandina, Florida closes on $2 million bridge financing
US Ports
ZIM's M/V Arsos arrives in Miami, part of ZIM's Canada Florida Express Service
Zim Integrated Shipping Services
Port Manatee awarded federal grant to support emergency operations
Port Manatee
The Suddath Companies designated as one of Northeast Florida’s fastest-growing private companies
Logistics Providers
JAXPORT Board of Directors elects new officers
Port of Jacksonville
Containers for world’s first LNG-powered container ships arrive at JAXPORT
Port of Jacksonville
IATA's 71st Annual General Meeting commences
International Air Freight
FECR and PortMiami meet with Panama Canal officials
Port of Miami
400 new ambulances head to Mid East via JAXPORT
Jacksonville Port Authority
Port Tampa Bay partners with USF in maritime research
Port of Tampa
JAXPORT begins service as Volkswagen’s Southeastern U.S. distribution hub
Port of Jacksonville

JAXPORT expansion gets federal funding boost

07 Nov 2019
JAXPORT received a $20 million grant from the USDOT, which will fund a portion of the $238 million cost of expanding the Blount Island terminal in Jacksonville as part of a long-term plan to drive more traffic and larger containerships to the port.
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US truckload carriers slam revenue brakes
29 Oct 2019
US motor carriers blamed “an oversupply of truckload capacity” for greater-than-expected pressure on earnings in the third quarter.
Manitoulin Global Forwarding buys Demark Global Logistics
08 Oct 2019
Canadian forwarder Manitoulin adds to its US holdings, expanding its global logistics network.
JAXPORT gets $35.3 million toward dredging
30 Sep 2019
The state of Florida has appropriated $35.3 million dollars to deepen the Jacksonville Harbor to 47 feet along a 11-mile stretch to the Blount Island terminal by 2023.
Storms nudge US truckload spot rates upward
27 Sep 2019
An analysis of pricing in 115 spot truckload lanes by JOC.com indicates a sequential monthly increase in September, with rates rising 4.46 percent on average across those lanes.
Florida freight lockdown extends to Georgia, Carolinas
03 Sep 2019
Freight operations are suspended in much of Florida as Hurricane Dorian passes on its way toward the Georgia and Carolina coasts.
Hurricane Dorian accelerates Florida’s freight flow
30 Aug 2019
Businesses rush to position goods and assets in Florida as rail and trucking operations race against the clock ahead of Hurricane Dorian’s landfall.
New service builds on PortMiami's rising Dominican trade
08 Jul 2019
Port Miami is gaining a second weekly route with the Dominican Republic, its second-largest trading partner, through APL/CMA CGM. It’s an express route that will take one fewer day than Seaboard Marine’s service.
US warehouses, ports prep for reefer volume boom
12 Jun 2019
Commercial realtor CBRE forecasts refrigerated warehousing will increase 30 to 40 percent over the next five years, even though the rapid supply and demand imbalance in warehousing overall is flattening.
Sealand launches new dedicated US-Caribbean loop
11 Jun 2019
The Maersk subsidiary line will begin a weekly service connecting Port Everglades to the Dominican Republic and Haiti in July, adding to the nearly 1 million TEU the port already handles from the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.
Shippers eye ocean transport as US-Mexico tensions rise
03 Jun 2019
With uncertainty surrounding US-Mexico relations, including threats of border shutdowns, tariffs and a Congressional showdown the US-Mexico-Canada agreement (USMCA-NAFTA 2), shippers are expressing more interest in all-water options to bypass any congestion on the border.