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the port of Jacksonville welcomes to Maersk Line but it greets APM Terminals
the terminalista society of the Maersk group has stopped the activity in port because of the loss of the services of the main customer
July 2, 2015
As soon as fifteen days ago the American port of Jacksonville has celebrated the arrival near own docks of the ships of the Maersk Line, the company world leader of the containerized marine transport, that it has decided to insert the port of call American in the within of own Network of services. After little days the harbour administration of Jacksonville has had to take note of the cessation of the activity carried out to the terminal of the Blount Island from the APM Terminals, society that as Maersk Line takes part of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk.
In recent days Maersk Line had announced the decision to carry out ports of call beginning from weeklies magazine own to the Blount Island Marine Terminal di Jaxport July in the within of the new service TP10 that connects the coast oriental of the USA with northern China and South Korea.
The Blount Island Marine Terminal is the greatest terminal of the port and is equipped of docks for a total of 2.163 linear meters in deep waters. Tuesday the terminalista society of the Danish shipowning group, that it operated in the terminalistica area through branch APM Terminals Jacksonville, has stopped the activity in the port of call American.
APM Terminals, that the terminal of Jacksonville within a contract of concession of the duration operated 25-year-old and that had succeeded in to enliven in a 2010 traffic of the container pairs to 242 thousand teu (in the 2014 traffic has been of 182.438 teu), has explained that the decision to stop the activity is assumed in consideration of the fact that the main customer of the terminal, the company Horizon Lines, has cancelled own service for Puerto Rico and last year she has sold own activities, that they have been acquired from Matson and Pasha Group ( on November 14, 2014 and 1° june 2015).
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As soon as fifteen days ago the American port of Jacksonville has celebrated the arrival near own docks of the ships of the Maersk Line, the company world leader of the containerized marine transport, that it has decided to insert the port of call American in the within of own Network of services. After little days the harbour administration of Jacksonville has had to take note of the cessation of the activity carried out to the terminal of the Blount Island from the APM Terminals, society that as Maersk Line takes part of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk.
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