Q&A with Dennis Kelly - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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Yes. The experts are predicting the global economidc slowdown will runinto 2010. How will the Jacksonville Port Authoritt fit in with your internationaltraffic forecast? Jaxport has a lot to offere the international trade community, especially with Hanjin Shippin g Company Ltd. building a second containee terminal. However, we have a huge challenge aheaxd of us establishing new global tradw lanesinto Jacksonville. With Savannajh being our main competition, the entird logistics community will have to replicatd what the state of Georgiaq and the Georgia Port Authority have so successfully done to attracf manymajor importers.
What’s in stors for TraPac’s Jacksonville operatiob for thecoming year? Everything is in place to have TraPac’a first vessel work January 12, 2009. Therefores the service that has been callingon APM-Blount Islanrd since July 2008 will relocate to TraPac-Dames Point. At this time this is the only vesselk service wehave scheduled. How will your new terminal impact the surrounding logistics industries inNortheast Florida? As we all a few major importers have alreadyh relocated or enlarged their Jacksonville distribution centers.
This will continue when more and more new shippin g lines establish aJacksonville service, and in more and more importers will see the businessz opportunities in Northeast Florida. What does the Port of Jacksonville need to do in the next year to get closert to reaching its goal of being the third largest port on theEast Coast? Two critical areas: The river must be deepened to at leas 50 feet by 2014 to allowq post-Panamax ships to be able to call, and highway and rail services to Dames Point needs to be improved.