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Fourteen Made-In-Northeast Florida Specialty Boats Move through JAXPORT’s Heavy Lift Dock
Highly trained master riggers moved 14 aluminum crew boats through the heavy lift and specialty cargo berth at the Jacksonville Port Authority’s Blount Island Marine Terminal.
The boats, each of them 45-feet in length and weighing approximately 25,000 pounds, sailed to JAXPORT on the St. Johns River from St. Johns Ship Building, a manufacturing facility in Palatka (FL). Workers employed by stevedoring company Portus lifted each boat from the river before loading them one at a time onto the general cargo vessel Thorco Copenhagen. The crew boats are being sent to Maracaibo, Venezuela, where they will be used to transport oil refinery employees to and from offshore oil rigs.
The heavy lift cargo berth at JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal offers up to 1,800 pounds per square foot of load capacity with rail capability up to 78 kips per axle for heavy cargo.
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