JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The world's largest container shipping company, Maersk Line, announced Wednesday it will begin weekly service to and from Jacksonville.
Maersk Line's decision to add a weekly service through JaxPort's Blount Island Marine Terminal, starting in July 2015, means nine of the world's top 10 global container carriers will now move goods into and out of Northeast Florida.
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Maersk Line's TP10 is a new service between the U.S. East Coast and Northern China and South Korea. It offers direct service from Jacksonville to Xingang, Qingdao and Shanghai in China and Busan in South Korea. SSA Marine will provide stevedoring services at Blount Island.
"What better way to illustrate JaxPort's increasingly visible role in international trade than to welcome the world's largest container line," said Roy Schleicher, JaxPort's executive vice president and chief commercial officer. "When you add Maersk to our already outstanding ocean carrier offerings and then consider what's attracted them -- the transportation and intermodal network easily accessed from our terminals, the quality of our skilled workforce, the major investments in our infrastructure and our room to grow -- it's clear JaxPort just makes good business sense."
"We'll work closely with JaxPort to ensure we're supporting our customers' success and the promises they make to their customers," said Michael White, president of Maersk Line North America.