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Nearly four times as much militaru cargo has come through Blount Island in the firsyt four months of 2009 as in the same periord ayear ago. The handling of about 53,5090 tons has helped offset the port’sw overall 5 percent decrease in And since theDefense Department’s Military Surface Deploymenf and Distribution Command contracts everything from ship loadingh and unloading to rail the private sector benefits. The port’s diverse types of cargo help it to weather slumps in other types of saidVictoria Robas, the Jacksonville Port Authority’s directorr of the Blount Island terminal.
An increase in cruisd traffic has also keptthe authority’s revenue higher than the same time last “To a large part, you could watch CNN and see what wouldf increase at sea ports,” said Army Lt. Col. Ralpuh Riddle, who commands the 832nd Transportationh Battalion. “Our traffic is very much a surge type. We may have several months where we have no shipw and then several ships in a But this year has beenespecially busy, meaning more work for . Aside from giving (NYSE: CSX) business by contractinf equipment to be railed in and out of the the battalion contracts thousanda of truck loads Riddle said.
hasn’t provided shipping services to the militaru since November because its ships have been in dry but it hopes to take advantage of the increasex demand within 45 saidFrank Peake, the company’d president. He said and are the two largesgt commercial carriers for military cargo on the East The 50-member battalion sets up the contract needed to run 30 port terminals in Centrakl and South America and the Caribbean.
This is in additionj to its handling of a terminalo in Cape Canaveral and its operation in Puert o Rico that tracks hundreds of containers moving in and out ofthe