This afternoon a delegation from the US port of Jaksonville met the Authority's top management in Livorno of the Port System of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, a meeting that aimed at consolidating existing commercial relations and create new traffic opportunities, in particular considering the possibility of starting one or more services direct between the two ports, an operation that will have to be in the next meetings through the involvement of direct operator

Located on the southeastern coast of the United States, the Port of Jacksonville is a reference hub for Florida, with a catchment area of 98 million consumers. The port of call The United States and the Livorno area are now indirectly linked through two services offered by Gemini Cooperation (Maersk and Hapag Lloyd): this is the Florida Shuttle Service, which connects Miami and Jacksonville to Cartagena (Colombia), and the West Coast South America Express (MSW), which connects Colombia to Italy (Genoa, Livorno, Civitavecchia and Salerno) passing through Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica and Spain.

The meeting was attended by the manager of the Port Authority promotion of the institution, Claudio Capuano, the officials Giampiero Costagli, Francesca Morucci and Giles Foster, while the mission was led by the sales manager of Port Authority, Robert Peek, and included the two chief operating officers Sheila Cox and Joyssy Woody.