JAXPORT IGNORES ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE IT CAUSES

JAXPORT IGNORES ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE IT CAUSES! Regardless of the environment, Jaxport has blocked myself for speaking out for the environment and has made it known it could careless what harm it does to the...

Jaxports Dirty little secret about Carnival Cruise Line

Carnival Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean Cruise Line  are convicted felons. That’s right. They each pled guilty in Federal Court in Miami to felonies. These included polluting our waters and lying about it to the United States Government in repeated cover ups....

An open letter to port authority

Nancy RubinPublic Relations for Jaxport2301 Talleyrand Avenue, 32206. Dear Nancy:As to your response below:  "Also, I would like to clear up an apparent misunderstanding...while JAXPORT employs only 150 people directly, the private businesses which lease...

Cruise Ships Dumping offshore of Jacksonville for Years!

"There have been cruise ships dumping offshore of Jacksonville for years", says Tony Orsini, Director of cruise ship and ferry operations for the Jaxport. as reported in the shorelines by drew dixon. Does the cruise ship director know something the general public doesn't...

Failure of Public officials to protect the Environment

Regardless of where you live in the state Elected Public officials tend to forget the voters who put them in office in the first place. when  an issue that has great public interest  as the environment  The public officials cater more to the industry and the...

cruise ship takes away public access to river

Once again the public stands to lose more waterfront to cruiseship terminals and lose access to the historial river of the st. johns. In effect Jaxport along with the cruise industry demand a security zone accross...

public trust joins Mayport to fight cruise terminal and pollution

The Village of Mayport is an historic, quaint fishing village. Scholars believe Jean Ribault landed here in 1562, two years before the establishment of Ft. Caroline which predates both St. Augustine and Jamestown.  Mayport has existed as a shrimping and fishing village...

Jaxport and city fail to honor public access to river

The city's idea and Jaxports balance is obviously very different to that of thousands of signatures collected along with Mayport residents who oppose the cruise terminal development in the village, I like to point out some of the more obvious flaws in their arguement. The...

Hotelling ships to check out of Jacksonville port

On a typical day, 15 oceangoing ships arrive at Jacksonville area terminals.At their berths loading, unloading or waiting for cargo, these ships continue to run some of their engines, in some cases burning the same extremely high sulfur fuel they use on the open sea....

How Clean Is Our Air in Jacksonville Fla?

While heredity, lifestyle and personal habits determine alot about a person’s health, more and more research reveals that human health is also determined by one’s surrounding environment. Consider the following facts about air pollution in Jacksonville Florida: The...

Is one of our national treasures soon to be trashed

Can we stop our country's historic Village of Mayport from being paved over?  The City Council of Jacksonville, Florida, may be about to destroy our nation's FIRST settlement seeking religious freedom, and...

What jaxport is not telling you?

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...

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