Featured Clients

CEMEX

CEMEX

CEMEX is a global building materials company that provides high quality products and reliable service to customers and communities throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The world’s leading supplier of ready-mix concrete, CEMEX also produces, distributes, and sells cement, aggregates, and related building materials. CEMEX depends on FEC’s customized service to move limestone and granite to multiple distribution points, as well as to block and ready-mix plants.

Crowley Maritime

Crowley Maritime

Crowley Maritime is a leading ocean cargo carrier between the United States and Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, Bahamas, Central America, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba. Crowley maintains one of the largest and most adaptable vessel fleets in the industry. Their oceangoing container ships, specialty vessels, and Ro/Ro barges enable Crowley to handle a wide range of freight, including vehicles, construction equipment, HAZMAT, break-bulk, heavy lift, perishable cargo and over-dimensional items.

By focusing the majority of their containerized vessel calls at Port Everglades (Fort Lauderdale), Crowley and FEC have been able to grow container traffic volume density year after year. As a direct result of the synergies derived from Crowley’s scheduled ocean services and efficiencies gained from a scheduled double-stack intermodal rail network originating and terminating in Ft. Lauderdale on FEC’s route, Crowley Maritime is on track for success.

Seaboard Marine

Seaboard Marine

Seaboard Marine is an ocean transportation company that for more than 28 years has provided direct, LO/LO and RO/RO containerized vessel service between the Port of Miami, the Caribbean Basin, and Central and South America. Convenient schedules, unmatched customer service and an expanding fleet of ships commanded and managed by a company of dedicated professionals, has become Seaboard’s trademark.

For an equal amount of time, FEC has complemented Seaboard’s scheduled ocean services by providing intermodal movement of Seaboard’s ocean containers in both COFC/TOFC, bi-directionally, throughout the Southeast on a Local FEC basis, as well as Interline to/from the Midwest & Northeast markets with Class 1 rail partners CSX and Norfolk Southern. By focusing the majority of their vessel calls at Port of Miami, both Seaboard and FEC have been able to grow container traffic volume density year after year, due to the synergies derived from Seaboard’s scheduled ocean services and efficiencies gained from a scheduled double-stack intermodal rail network originating and terminating in Miami on FEC’s route.

Tropical Shipping

Tropical Shipping

Tropical Shipping operates state-of-the-art on-dock FEC rail served intermodal facilities at Port of Palm Beach to meet to ocean and inland freight-shipping needs to and from the Caribbean and the Bahamas. FEC and Tropical have had a long-standing relationship by combining the synergies of Tropical’s weekly multiple vessel departures with FEC’s on-dock double-stack container rail service between Port of Palm Beach and Jacksonville.

Tropicana

Tropicana

Tropicana Products, Inc. is the leading producer of orange juice in the United States. The company is a pioneer in the not-from-concentrate, chilled orange juice sector. Tropicana and the FEC recently marked the 10th anniversary of their distribution relationship. In July 2001, FEC began direct rail service to Tropicana’s processing center in Ft. Pierce, Florida. The transportation solution, jointly designed by FEC and Tropicana, allows juice products to be shipped in specially designed railcars to the Northeast within 48 hours of leaving the distribution facility.

UPS

United Parcel Service is a global logistics company with one of the most recognized and admired brands in the world. For more than 15 years, FEC has been a strategic transportation partner for UPS and has provided ramp-to-ramp intermodal service and holds the record for the longest number of days without a service failure (greater than five years).

UPS trailers are brought to the Jacksonville ramp for delivery to South Florida or arrive to the Bowden Rail Yard via the Hurricane Train, a joint marketing agreement between Norfolk Southern and FEC. UPS trailers are picked up at the Fort Lauderdale intermodal ramp facility or at the Hialeah Rail Yard.