Florida to ships at sea: ‘Reroute your thinking’

Published October 20, 2021 7:00pm ET



Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says Florida’s 15 ports and $117 billion maritime trade industry can save Christmas.

“We have to make sure people can go Christmas shopping as normal. We have to make sure all the necessities are there,” DeSantis told reporters as he toured Jacksonville’s JAXPORT seaport Tuesday amid reports of global supply chain bottlenecks and ships log-jammed outside California ports.

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