Marketing Agency in Jacksonville, FL for FTZ No. 64 Space

Updated November 2026 · Written and maintained by the Progression Agency strategy team

An empty distribution building in Northeast Florida can sit inside the service area of Foreign Trade Zone No. 64 and still have no zone status at all. JAXPORT’s Zone Schedule ties a usage-driven site to one company operator, bars operations until Customs activates the site, and starts a sunset clock the day the Board approves it. A marketing agency in Jacksonville, FL that writes a warehouse listing or a 3PL’s services page has to know which of those lines the building can claim. Progression’s people work from New York, take on Jacksonville accounts remotely and meet on site when a client asks.

A leasing flyer that says FTZ ready

A hypothetical flyer for a vacant 200,000 square foot building carries one headline in large type: FTZ ready. A second version of the same flyer says the building sits inside FTZ No. 64’s service area and that zone site designation goes through JAXPORT for the right operator.

The first flyer claims a status the building does not hold yet. The second says what is true today and what has to happen next. A broker reading either one acts on it, which is why the wording is a fact with an owner.

A marketing agency in Jacksonville, FL for zone space and zone services

JAXPORT is the grantee of Foreign Trade Zone No. 64, which it bills as Florida’s largest foreign trade zone. It spans more than 5,000 square miles of Northeast Florida across 10 participating counties, and a zone application must be approved by JAXPORT, the U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The Zone Schedule, effective 5/24/2023, uses an Alternative Site Framework: a Service Area of one or more counties where a usage-driven site can be established in 30 days or a magnet site in six to ten months. The plain advice: status words on a listing are facts with an owner, so each one is checked before it is printed.

What does a service area give a building?

A place in the counties where a usage-driven site can be established. It is not status: the Schedule’s definition of Service Area is the counties the Board approved, and a building gets no zone status from sitting inside them.

The claim sheet: each zone line and what has to stand behind it

A listing, a flyer or a services page tends to carry the same handful of lines. Each row below sets one beside the Zone Schedule section or JAXPORT page that decides it and the wording that holds.

A usage-driven site belongs to one operator

The Zone Schedule defines a usage-driven site as a zone site established for a specific company operator. A landlord’s listing for a building that a tenant later gets approved says so in the tenant’s name only after the tenant agrees, and it never implies the next tenant inherits the status.

• Say that the status belongs to the operator, not to the walls.
• Name the operator only with the operator’s written consent.
• Take the zone wording off the listing when the operator leaves.
• Describe a magnet site as the Schedule does: a large site meant to attract several operators.

The schedule of services and fees a user can ask for

Section 7.05 says an operator other than one covered by 5.04 publishes its own schedule of services and fees, available at its zone site and at JAXPORT’s office. Section 5.03 adds that a user should not rely solely on the schedule on file and should contact the operator directly for current quotes.

• Link to the operator’s schedule, or say where it is available.
• Tell users to ask the operator for a current quote.
• Leave rates off the page; the operator sets them.
• Say plainly when an operator handles only its own goods.

Production lines and the Board’s designation

Production or processing is not allowed in the general purpose zone unless the Board has designated the site for it. A services page for kitting or assembly says the work is available at designated sites only, and does not describe a general building as a production site.

• Use production wording only for a designated site.
• Describe storage and distribution separately from production.
• Mention the up to 120 day timeline only as JAXPORT states it.
• Send production questions to JAXPORT’s FTZ administrator.

Pricing marketing for zone space

Marketing for a warehouse, a 3PL or a landlord is quoted after a written scope. Pricing depends on scope and is set in the written proposal. Published prices are subject to change.

For related work, see logistics marketing agency and logistics website design.

Thirty days, 120 days and the fees JAXPORT lists

JAXPORT’s FTZ fact sheet, dated 07/26, says approvals for storage and distribution sites typically take 30 days, while sites seeking approval for production activity can take up to 120 days. Fees include a $2,500 application fee, a $2,500 activation fee and an annual fee of $10,000, subject to changes in regulations.

Once established, an operator must meet strict security requirements, comply with Customs regulations, keep accurate records and maintain an FTZ Operator’s Bond. A company can apply on its own, and many work with a consultant. The plain advice: a prospect page states who applies, tells readers JAXPORT’s FTZ administrator starts the process, and prints fees only as JAXPORT prints them, with the date.

Who applies for zone status?

A company can apply on its own, and JAXPORT’s fact sheet says many work with a consultant because of the complexity of Customs activation. JAXPORT’s FTZ administrator starts the process.

• Credit the fees to JAXPORT’s fact sheet and show its date.
• Keep the words subject to changes in regulations beside every fee.
• Never put the fees in a price table next to marketing prices.
• Link JAXPORT’s page for anyone who wants the current numbers.

Jacksonville marketing agency work for 3PLs that run zone space for clients

JAXPORT’s fact sheet says operation of an FTZ space can be outsourced to third-party logistics providers within FTZ No. 64. A 3PL that runs zone space for clients needs a services page that carries its filed schedule, and the plain advice is to keep it to what the Zone Schedule supports.

The page names the filed schedule, says how a user gets a current quote, mentions the records and annual report the operator keeps and the bond it carries, and prints no duty saving figure. Section 6.09 has operators and users file an annual report through the Board’s online system within 30 days after the reporting period closes. See logistics marketing agency for the wider campaign.

• Name the filed schedule and where it can be read.
• Say how a user reaches the operator for a current quote.
• Mention the bond and the annual report in one plain sentence.
• Leave duty savings to JAXPORT’s consultation and the importer’s broker.

What should a 3PL’s page say about who it serves?

If the operator files no schedule, it handles only its own merchandise or that of defined customers, and the page says so. An operator that files one serves users generally.

Digital marketing agency in Jacksonville campaigns aimed at importers

A marketing company in Jacksonville aiming at importers starts where importers already are: moving cargo through Jacksonville. Search and LinkedIn campaigns reach them, an email sequence reaches freight forwarders and customs brokers, and landing pages explain zone benefits only in JAXPORT’s words: deferred, reduced or eliminated duties.

Savings estimates go to JAXPORT’s consultation or to the importer’s customs broker, and no page prints a figure. The campaign sends a reader to the right person rather than answering a customs question.

Which importers does a campaign reach?

Importers already moving cargo through Jacksonville, and the freight forwarders and customs brokers who advise them. A campaign for them explains the zone in JAXPORT’s words and nothing more.

• Use JAXPORT’s wording for benefits and add no figures.
• Send customs questions to a licensed customs broker.
• Build one landing page per audience: importer, forwarder, broker.
• Keep every claim on the page checkable against the Zone Schedule.

Marketing company in Jacksonville, FL listings for industrial landlords

A landlord’s listing says the building sits in FTZ No. 64’s service area and that designation follows an operator’s application through JAXPORT. It never says the building is a zone site, because the Schedule ties a usage-driven site to the operator it was set up for.

When a tenant’s usage-driven site is approved, the tenant’s status stays the tenant’s and leaves with the tenant. See commercial real estate marketing agency for the rest of a landlord’s marketing.

Can a listing name the tenant’s zone status?

Only with the tenant’s written consent, and only while the status lasts. The status belongs to the operator and goes with it.

• Say service area, not zone site, until a site is approved.
• State that designation follows an operator’s application.
• Remove zone wording when a tenant with a usage-driven site leaves.
• Leave lease rates and square foot prices off the zone paragraph.

The sunset clock on a zone site

Section 6.03 gives operators a deadline. A usage-driven site operator must show bona fide zone activity within three years of the date the FTZ Board first approved the site or lose zone status. In a magnet site, the operator or another operator there must activate a portion within five years, and the Blount Island Terminal is excepted.

Failure means automatic deletion of zone status. The plain advice: keep a status line on the site with the approval date current, and take the zone wording down the day status ends.

Who keeps the status line current?

The listing’s owner, with a date checked beside the line. A status line with no date is a claim nobody is minding.

Words that stay off a zone listing

Some phrases make a promise the Zone Schedule does not. A listing that avoids them keeps its zone line to what holds.

• Read every listing for the words ready, approved and eligible.
• Check each zone line against the section that decides it.
• Date every status line.
• Send questions about any line to JAXPORT.

Before a listing goes to brokers

Eight checks finish the job, and the card lists them. Fees are dated and credited to JAXPORT, and no savings figure appears anywhere. For campaigns that follow the listing, see B2B marketing agency. Businesses on the river side of the same city, such as tour boats and rental fleets, work under a different rule set; see our page on sites for river tours and rental fleets.

For search on the Jacksonville side of the port, see our SEO company in Jacksonville page.

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