Maersk Starts Weekly Service through Port of Jacksonville

 

JAXPORT has officially announced the addition of the world’s No. 1 container shipping company to the growing number of global carriers with regular container cargo service through Jacksonville.

 

This addition service means that nine of the world’s top 10 global container carriers now offer their customers the opportunity to move containers into and out of Northeast Florida.

 

“What better way to illustrate JAXPORT’s increasingly visible role in international trade than to welcome the world’s largest container line,” said JAXPORT Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer Roy Schleicher. 

 

“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,” he added.

 

Maersk Line’s TP10 is a new service between the US 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.

 

“We believe our role is to respond to the needs of global shippers who face a wide-range of market and economic challenges. Through our partnership with JAXPORT, we mark the beginning of a new TP10 direct service that provides greater convenience and enhanced transit times for shippers doing business between Northern Asia and South Korea and Northern Florida and the U.S. Southeast. 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.