Horizon Lines will add a Jacksonville call to its southbound service between Houston and San Juan, which will continue to operate on a 14-day roundtrip timetable.
The expanded service will employ the Horizon Producer, which now operates on a Houston-San Juan rotation. The vessel has capacity of about 1,300 20-foot-equivalent units.
Company officials said the expanded service will allow Horizon to compete with truck and rail shipments from the Houston area to southeast U.S. points, while providing an additional sailing from San Juan to Jacksonville.
The revised service adds a Tuesday sailing every other week from Jacksonville to San Juan. The Horizon Producer will continue to depart Houston every other Friday, but now will offer an over-the-weekend marine service to Jacksonville. The company’s weekly Thursday service departing Jacksonville for Puerto Rico remains unchanged.
The first sailing of the new service is scheduled to depart Houston on June 7, arriving in Jacksonville on June 11. There the service will transfer cargo for intermodal shipment to other southeastern destinations such as Miami, Orlando, Savannah, Atlanta, Charleston, and Charlotte. The vessel then will load additional cargo for San Juan and depart on the same Tuesday, arriving in San Juan on Friday.
The ship will return directly to Houston from San Juan, departing on Friday and arriving in Houston on the following Friday.
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