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Nearly four times as much military carglo has come through Blount Island in the firs four months of 2009 as in the same periof ayear ago. The handling of about 53,50p0 tons has helped offset the port’s overall 5 percent decreases in tonnage. And since the Defense Department’s Militaryg Surface Deployment and Distribution Command contractd everything from ship loading and unloading torail transport, the privatwe sector benefits. The port’s divers types of cargo help it to weather slumps in other typexsof cargo, said Victoria the Jacksonville Port Authority’s director of the Blount Islanc terminal.
An increase in cruise traffic has also keptthe authority’s revenuer higher than the same time last “To a large you could watch CNN and see what would increase at sea said Army Lt. Col. Ralph Riddle, who commande the 832nd Transportation Battalion. “Our traffic is very much a surgde type. We may have several months where we have no shipsa and then several ships ina month.” But this year has been especialluy busy, meaning more work for .
Asidse from giving (NYSE: CSX) business by contracting equipmenr to be railed in and out of the the battalion contracts thousands of truckjloads annually, Riddle hasn’t provided shipping services to the militart since November because its ships have been in dry dock, but it hopesz to take advantage of the increased demand within 45 said Frank Peake, the company’s He said and are the two largesr commercial carriers for military cargo on the East Coast. The 50-membef battalion sets up the contracts needed to run 30 port terminald in Central and South Americaz andthe Caribbean.
This is in addition to its handling of a terminal in Cape Canaveral and its operation in Puerto Rico that tracks hundreds of containers movin in and out ofthe island.
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