Port of Fernandina working to bring in more cargo ships amid supply chain backup

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Port welcomed vessel carrying 350 cargo containers connected Monday, but others are expected

Sky 4 provides an aerial presumption of a vessel that was being unloaded Monday astatine the Port of Fernandina. (WJXT)

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. – The proviso concatenation backup is making vacation buying hard for some. But connected Monday, crews astatine the Port of Fernandina were moving to effort to relieve immoderate of that.

The tiny larboard took connected the large occupation by bringing successful a vessel that could’ve been stuck for weeks trying to get into different port. The vessel was carrying cargo containers filled with items to spell to a sporting goods store concatenation that could beryllium gifts for immoderate radical this vacation season.

Instead of going to large adjacent ports similar successful Savannah, wherever ships are stacked up, the vessel came to the larboard successful Fernandina Beach.

“This is simply a large time for america due to the fact that we person a vessel that’s coming straight from China with captious goods that request to beryllium connected the support anterior to Christmas,” said Chris Ragucci, of Worldwide Terminals, which operates the Port of Fernandina.

Not a batch of radical cognize astir the port. Normally, they bash 2 to 3 ships a week. When the large ports were backed up, Ragucci says, the Port of Fernandina fto it beryllium known that helium could grip immoderate of the traffic.

“We person been investing successful the Port of Fernandina for the past 4 years conscionable to beryllium acceptable for a infinitesimal similar this,” Ragucci said. “We person caller cranes, caller instrumentality and heavy h2o astatine the dock, and we privation to get the connection out.”

Throughout the day, 350 containers were being unloaded from the ship. There was an contented with 1 instrumentality partially hanging disconnected the broadside of the vessel that caused immoderate delays, but it was corrected and nary 1 was hurt. According to larboard officials, the occupation was owed to improper loading successful China, but they were capable to instrumentality attraction of the situation.

Sky 4 shows a instrumentality partially hanging disconnected the broadside of a ship. (WJXT)

Now, the port’s extremity is to bring successful adjacent much ships. Another cargo vessel is scheduled for adjacent week. Port officials accidental determination are capable motortruck drivers and workers to get the bully unloaded and yet delivered to wherever they request to go.