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Freight State

Florida's largest landowners are planning to capitalize by changing the way freight moves around the state.

Cynthia Barnett | 3/1/2010

Moving Cargo Around Florida

Moving Cargo around Florida

Major Rail Carriers in Florida

  • CSX: 2,800 miles of track; three intermodal terminals; additional truck-rail transfer facilities
  • Florida East Coast Railroad: 350 miles of track; four intermodal terminals; additional truck-rail transfer facilities
  • Norfolk Southern: Less than 100 miles of track; shares intermodal facility in Jacksonville with FEC and CSX; in 2009, opened Titusville intermodal facility.

Logistics Centers:
The Contenders

  • In northeast Florida, Plum Creek Timber, Florida’s largest private landowner with 600,000 acres, is working on a 2,500-acre "intermodal mega-site" east of Lake City on U.S. 90 meant to handle increased freight loads to and from the Jacksonville Port, with access to all of Florida’s major interstates and rail service on CSX lines.
  • In the Panhandle, Florida’s second-largest landowner, St. Joe Co., donated 4,000 acres for America’s newest airport, Northwest Florida Beaches International, which will open in May. The company is working to develop 1,000 acres adjacent to the airport with transportation/logistics and aerospace/aviation companies — which the company hopes will lead to further development of its 71,000-acre West Bay property, including an ILC somewhere on its landholdings. CEO Britt Greene says a crucial piece of the company’s plans is a deal with the St. Joe Port that will allow it to resume operations for the first time since it was shuttered in 1997 with the town’s paper mill. St. Joe also inked a deal with Genesee & Wyoming Railroad that will connect the port with the national rail system in Chattahoochee.
Alfonso and Pepe Fanjul
Alfonso (left) and Pepe Fanjul, owners of Florida Crystals, will team up with the Port of Palm Beach on a 1,000-acre distribution center.
  • In southeast Florida, Florida Crystals, the sugar giant owned by the Fanjul family of Palm Beach, recently won approval from the Port of Palm Beach to be its partner in a 1,000-acre intermodal warehousing and distribution center that would ease congestion in south Florida’s three seaports.
  • In south-central Florida, two agricultural powerhouses — Lykes Bros. and A. Duda & Sons — are pushing plans for a major ILC and advanced manufacturing hub in Glades County. The project was originally proposed for the Port of Palm Beach partnership, but company executives withdrew it from the process in October and are pursing a national developer. They say the Moore Haven site creates an ideal southern link to the Plum Creek site in north Florida and CSX’s new integrated logistics center in Winter Haven.

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