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The Grimaldi Group is a conglomerate of companies linked to the logistics business with a main focus on shipping. The main brands of the company are: [3] Grimaldi Lines – covering the activities of two companies, Grimaldi Euromed and Grimaldi Deepsea, including maritime transport of cargo and passengers in the Mediterranean as well as freight only services between the Mediterranean, Northern ...
Atlantic Container Line is an American, previously Swedish, shipping company owned by the Italian Grimaldi Group. The company operates large roll-on/roll-off (RORO) container ships between Europe and North America.
North American container ports. This is a list of ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage. [1] Ports in the United States handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy, including petroleum, grain, steel, automobiles, and containerized goods.
JAXPORT is the largest port by volume in Florida, and the 14th largest container port in the United States. [3] It carries about 18 million short tons of cargo each year [4] and has an annual economic impact of over $31 billion, including 138,500 jobs across the state of Florida related to cargo moving through the port. [5]
The fleet includes 40 container ships and 4 bunker barges, [2] employing over 7,300 staff globally, regularly calling ports located in 23 countries. The main services provided to customers are from Turkey and Europe to the Black Sea, East Mediterranean, West Mediterranean, North Africa and West Africa.
Grande America in 2016 near Casablanca.. On 10 March 2019, Grande America caught fire while traveling the Atlantic Ocean between France and Spain on its route from Hamburg (Germany) to Casablanca (Morocco), and sank 4,600 m (15,100 ft) into the Bay of Biscay on 12 March.
The port serves container ships, tank ships, and cruise lines. As of 2023, Port Tampa Bay ranks 24th in the United States by total trade in cargo tonnage . [ 5 ] It is the largest, most diversified port in Florida, has an economic impact of more than $15.1 billion, and supports over 80,000 jobs.
Part of the larger Port of Houston complex, Barbours Cut is the largest of the terminals and the first port in Texas to handle standardized cargo containers. The terminal has six berths with 6,000 feet (1,800 m) of continuous wharfs. The loading area covers 230 acres (93 ha), with 255,000 square feet (23,700 m 2) of warehouse/storage space. The ...