Crowley Ups Puerto Rico Service – Announces New Sailings from Northeast
Crowley Maritime Corp.’s liner companies group will add sailings between New Jersey and Puerto Rico this summer season in response to buyer demand for extra transport companies within the Northeast.
The new service will present Jones Act transport companies between Pennsauken, New Jersey and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Crowley presently supplies Jones Act service to Puerto Rico from Jacksonville, Florida.
“With our accelerated sailing schedule, we have determined that we can add a sailing each month between Pennsauken and San Juan,” mentioned John Hourihan, Crowley senior vice chairman and normal supervisor, Puerto Rico companies. “We’ve been working diligently since last December to add capacity and tweak our vessel rotations and operations to accommodate as much cargo as possible. This enhancement will surely benefit our customers in the Northeast who have been adjusting to capacity issues caused by the departure of Horizon Lines from the market.”
Horizon Lines terminated its liner service between the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico in direction of the tip of 2014 because of persevering with losses with out the prospect of future profitability.
Crowley says that its 580-series, triple-deck Ro/Ro barge able to carrying 345 hundreds will alternate between the South Atlantic and North Atlantic companies, and generate one southbound and one northbound crusing every month between Pennsauken and San Juan. Even with this variation, all Crowley vessels working on an accelerated schedule will be capable to proceed to supply 4 sailings per week between Jacksonville, Florida, and San Juan, Crowley says.
Since mid-December, Crowley has created further weekly cargo carrying capability, together with the addition of a brand new flat-deck barge able to carrying as much as 400 further hundreds between Jacksonville and Puerto Rico. Crowley has additionally ordered and begun inserting into service greater than 7,000 items of recent cargo dealing with tools, together with 40-foot, 45-foot and 48-foot excessive dice containers, 20-foot ISO tanks and quite a lot of mounted and slider chassis.
Crowley has served the Puerto Rico market since 1954 and presently has about 200 Puerto Rico staff. The firm can be the No. 1 ocean provider between Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland with extra weekly sailings and extra cargo carried yearly than another transport line.
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