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The East Coast ports are going to continude todo well. If the regional expectation was 2011, the currenrt answer is two years later. What’sx pushing it back isn’t just the economy, but that therre is a lot of capacity in the West Coast now due tothe —John Giles, RailAmerica Inc. CEO and president The port has several interestingf dynamics at play that will determine if and when the port will meet itsanticipatedr projections. The supply chain has become a very complex model and in many cases can providse a competitive advantage formanufacturing companies.
The company that can sourcr the best products for the lowest with the shortest lead timesa and carries the least amounyt of inventory while still meetinb demand usually has the bestprice point. The effectsz of the economy have forced many manufactureras to reassess their supply chains to maintainjthat advantage. The containers that flow through the port need to have local drayage to localcross docks, warehouseas and rail yards to continue their flow throughg the supply chain.
will benefit with the increased volumez across all of our service We have several customers who consolidate material in Jacksonville by way of rail or truck and then transloaf that material into shipping containers for exportthrougy Jaxport. In turn, we have a numbef of warehouse customers who bring their material through our warehouses wheree we performnumerous value-added activities befores eventually shipping to the fina destination. —Shawn Barnett, PenserSC, CEO Once the economt rebounds, imports should rebound.
The next thing the port needes is dredging to 50 feet of water to alloq the port to accommodate the larges and most efficientcontainer Lastly, the widening of the Panama Canal will make it a lot more efficiengt for the carriers to ship directly to the East The growth of the port in Jacksonvillde will not do much to grow the size of the U.S. to Puertoo Rico market — it’s driven on consumptiob — but it will allow the Puertop Rico carriers to become more The growth of imports into Jacksonville will continuew to shift the sourcing of goods to Puertio Rico from the Northeast to the Southeast as more distribution centers are built to accommodat e the growthin imports.
—Frank Peake, President Once the new Hanjijn [Shipping Company Ltd.] terminal is completed and steamship companie s have time under their belt using theTraPacf [Inc.] facility, Jaxport will be meetinfg its potential. Jaxport will hit its potential for onemain timing. Timing has given Jacksonville the abilith for planned infrastructure development aroundthe port. The immediate growth will stem from our truckin and drayage divisions servicinvgthe port. As new steamshil companies call on the we will be handling more localized incoming andoutgoinb freight.
We’ll also be able to use our vast truckm network that transports more round trip international containers by moving import freighg to the final customer and usinf these same containers to handleour customers’ export freight. —Alp Steele, , CEO and president