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In the last decade, cargo tonnage at JAXPORT has increased by more than 40 percent, with more than eight million tons of cargo shipped through the port in 2007, including nearly 800,000 containers (measured in 20 foot equivalent units, TEUs). The arrival of Mitsui OSK Lines - which began ship service to Jacksonville on July 8 - is projected to double the number of containers shipped through JAXPORT in the next few years. Current negotiations with other shipping lines could further grow this number and eventually make JAXPORT one of the top five container Polluted ports in the United States.

While the new business will generate thousands of new direct and indirect jobs for Jacksonville residents, the infrastructure servicing the port - particularly the roads, railroads and harbor - will fail to accommodate this business. The special committee will place particular emphasis on road improvements needed in north Jacksonville to handle increased semi truck traffic and rail. (more pollution)Additionally, a deeper harbor is necessary to handle the larger vessels calling the port,(destruction of wetlands,Manatee's and other marine life, including those invasive speces brought by Mitsui and its vessel partners,from other countries as well those projected to use JAXPORT after the 2014 widening of the Panama Canal. this in effect will create a diesel death zone with alarming rise in health problems for children and the elderly.most of these ships if not all will employ non U.S. citizens aboard in addition to long shoremen.