Ocean Network Express adds Jaxport to East Coast route

Starting in February 2025, Singapore-based shipping line Ocean Network Express (ONE) will add the Jacksonville Port Authority (Jaxport) to its East Coast 2 container service, connecting the Florida container port with five ports in Asia.

The weekly East Coast 2 service operates with a fleet of 13,500 20-foot-equivalent (TEU) container vessels, all operated by ONE. Vessels will call the newly modernized Stevedoring Services of America (SSA) Jacksonville Container Terminal at Blount Island Marine Terminal. SSA Atlantic will provide stevedoring services, Jaxport officials said in a press release.

The port rotation will be Xiamen, Yantian, Ningbo, and Shanghai in China; Busan, South Korea; Manzanillo, Panama; Savannah, Georgia; Charleston, South Carolina; Jacksonville, Florida; Manzanillo; Busan; and back to Xiamen.

Retail products, food and beverages, electronics and intermediate goods and supplies are expected to be frequent commodities on the service.

"Jaxport and our port partners have made significant investments in modernizing container handling capabilities at Blount Island,” said Jaxport CEO Eric Green, referring to a $72 million project to expand and modernize the terminal that began in 2022 and is expected to be completed in 2025. “These investments continue to attract global shippers, and the jobs and economic impact their cargo supports, to Jacksonville.”