Shipping company to begin sailing to Central America

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Shipping services and logistics company Crowley Liner Services will begin sailing weekly from Florida to Central America starting today.

Ships will leave from the Port of Jacksonville and Port Everglades and will arrive at Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, and at Manzanillo, Panama.

Ships will leave from each port once a week.

“The new, dedicated service continues our strategy of providing importers and exporters the fastest, most dependable suite of supply chain solutions possible between the U.S. and Central American regions,” Crowley’s Frank Larkin, senior vice president and general manager, logistics and commercial services, said. “Crowley has a unique ability to benefit U.S. and international customers by combining its longtime ocean shipping expertise with full, fast and robust supply chain solutions.”

The service includes dry and refrigerated warehousing for both full-container loads and less-than-container loads as well as inland transportation, pool-point distribution, and customs clearance.

It offers a fast ocean-transport service that reduces costs and increases visibility while building on customers’ confidence,” Steve Collar, Crowley senior vice president and general manager of international liner services, said. It also offers customers a single point of accountability.

Crowley offers six operating lines shipping to domestic and international markets and works for both the government and the private sector.