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PROGNOSIS * USA - Long-term need for short-haul trucking
Jacksonville,FL,USA -Jacksonville Business Journal, by Tony Quesada -May 16, 2008: -- The need for drayage -- hauling shipping containers between modes of transportation or to their destinations -- is expected to increase as container terminals open in Jacksonville, presenting opportunities and challenges for the local trucking industry... The Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. terminal at Dames Point, set to open in January 2009, is projected to have capacity of about 800,000 20-foot-equivalent units (TEUs) of containerized cargo, which equates to roughly 400,000 shipping containers.... Hanjin Shipping Company Ltd. plans to develop a container terminal off Heckscher Drive by 2011 capable of handling 1 million TEUs a year... Port authority officials expect about 30 percent or more of those containers will need to be drayed to local rail yards, while others will go to area warehouses, cross-dock sites and container yards... While trucking companies look forward to new drayage business, it's not without concerns. Perhaps the main one -- also shared by drayage customers -- is whether the roads can handle the increased demand... "The big 'watch out' for us is traffic and road time," said Ike Sherlock, director of fleet operations for Grimes Trucking Co... It takes about 20 minutes to dray a container from Blount Island to the Westside rail yards, which is about the same distance as from Dames Point. Sherlock said that on a good day a drayage driver can shuttle five containers, which would be a very profitable day... The port authority has coordinated with the Florida Department of Transportation on improvements to the State Road 9A/Heckscher Drive interchange -- an $11.8 million project -- to facilitate a smoother flow of trucks to and from the Mitsui terminal... (Photo by Marcy Appelbaum - Dursum Medic, a truck driver with Hart Transportation, connects a refrigerated container to his truck)Labels: markets prognosis
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