"It would take seven days for a steamship to travel from Southern California to Northern Florida through the Panama Canal, but Jacksonville port officials say it could be worth the trip"
Posted on 10/21/2021 12:58:14 PM PDT by DFG
A Florida port authority is inviting steamships waiting to dock in California to divert via the Panama Canal to the sunshine state, where there are no backlogs.
The Jacksonville Port Authority said it’s the solution to an unprecedented logjam at The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, where weeks-long queues are slowing commerce ahead of the year’s busiest shopping season.
It’s a sharp contrast from the scene in Jacksonville, which officials said has maintained terminal fluidity – and set a new container volume record - despite market disruptions.
Florida ports council president Michael Rubin said they can expedite cargo ship movement by rerouting container ships via the Panama Canal, a seven-day journey from Southern California to Northern Florida.
‘We have the opportunity to provide those shipping lines and beneficial cargo owners a more efficient route that can get their product not only to the third-largest domestic market in the country but also to other markets outside of Florida, within two days,’ Rubin told ABC Action News.
‘We realize how important it is to get those goods to market, to not be the grinch that stole Christmas.’
The Jacksonville port set a new container volume record in May, when it moved nearly 129,000 twenty-foot equivalent units through its terminals.
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"It would take seven days for a steamship to travel from Southern California to Northern Florida through the Panama Canal, but Jacksonville port officials say it could be worth the trip"
Excellent!
Yay Florida!
There’s still quite a bit of piracy in the Pacific waters near the canal.
...”steamships”...
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LOL
I hope Florida eats California’s lunch. GO Houston and Nawlins.
So up yours, Newsom.
Biden and his handlers, being the small-minded and vindictive pr*cks that they are, don’t want to give DeSantis, or the state of FL, any credit for resolving this issue so they may reject this plan.
That would be awesome but he has been encouraging them to make the move for sometime now and the ships are still docked in LA...this only tells me they rather float in the water there then making the long trip around in unfamiliar waters!
And how long are the ships waiting to be berthed and offloaded?
These ships off California have been sort of knocking on our front door with no luck. Now they have an invitation to go around to the back and enter there. How could Buttigieg be against that?
We are witnessing the difference between a governor who can’t manage his state (Newsom) and another who can (DeSantis). This year California lost another 1m acres to fires. One of the causes - Calfire and the National Forestry Service don’t communicate. Too much envy between the agencies. No coordination. Where was Newsom?
I’ve heard that the tolls for large ships to traverse the panama canal are very very expensive, but from what I’ve just read, for freighters it can range from $10,000 to $100,000. This is less than I expected. Considering the number of cargo containers some of these vessels have and the value of the items, it’s probably well worth it to go to Florida.
1. There’s a reason why Florida’s ports have no backlog: They aren’t well positioned to move cargo to the major U.S. cargo destinations in the Midwest and Northeast after the cargo is off-loaded from the ships.
2. Ocean carriers make port calls at terminals where they have contracts in place for handling cargo. If they don’t have a contract in place at a florida port then they don’t go there. Telling a carrier like Maersk to divert to an MOL or Evergreen terminal is like telling a truck driver making a delivery to Walmart to drop his load at Target if the road to Walmart is closed.
Do they fit the canal ?????some or to big
Another problem
What is the toll to go through the Panama Canal?
Under the new toll structure, a 9,000-TEU ship carrying 6,500 loaded TEU, or 72.2 percent of capacity, would pay a regular $677,500 toll for its headhaul voyage. That same ship, carrying 4,000 TEU on the backhaul, would pay $550,000, a 6.8 percent reduction from the current $590,000 toll.
the route is wrong on that illustration...
jacksonville is on the northeast side of florida...
not the southwest...
That’s a lot of fuel to burn, ply it will backlog the canal.
Does anyone really think that Newsom is equipped to manage California?
I’m not sure thes container ships are built to panmax standards.
Lets get going.
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