I guess these guys have accepted their fate in the Post Panamax race...
Quote[Canaveral Port Authority] has determined that cargo volumes do not justify the necessity for a barge rail service at this time. Once cargo volumes increase and land-side development opportunities restrict the movement of cargo, a barge rail service may be further researched and possibly planned for the future," said port documents.
Port leaders have slowly been shelving the plans for a more robust cargo system at the port, and this seems like the latest effort. Expanding the port's cargo business was the vision of former Port Canaveral CEO John Walsh, who resigned earlier this year. Walsh was replaced with former Hapag-Lloyd USA President and CEO John Murray shortly after.
It's also yet another one of Port Canaveral's recent projects to be scaled back.
http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/blog/morning-edition/2016/06/port-canaveral-leaders-seek-to-pull-back-throttle.html
Because the investments being made by FEC at its Hialeah logistics center and the Miami deep port project made any effort at Canaveral redundant.
Right now the top benefit Canaveral has is its proximity to Orlando. When AAF finishes the Cocoa/MCO link, FEC will be able to route freight just as easily through Hialeah with very little overhead.