Jacksonville is Florida's most populous city, with 1,017,689 residents in the Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimate, and its economy has a port at the center. JAXPORT's statistics page lists 1,388,841 containers, counted as TEUs, and 506,237 automobiles for fiscal year 2025. For a Shopify store the useful facts are narrower. The Florida Department of Revenue's 2026 table lists a total discretionary sales surtax of 1.5 percent for Duval County, so a cart total there is not the sticker price. The one dated 2027 event used here is the 50th Gate River Run 15K on March 6, 2027. This page sets those facts side by side and builds a spend-and-get gift plan from them.
JAXPORT handles containers and vehicles at terminals with on-dock rail, which makes Jacksonville a place where stock planning and landed cost are real questions for a store that imports, and where a spend-and-get gift can be sized from the real shipping cost.
Cost the gift at landed price. Add the unit cost, the packaging and the weight it adds to the parcel. JAXPORT's page counts 1,388,841 TEUs of containers in fiscal 2025, which is a reminder that landed cost starts at the port, not at your warehouse door.
Set the spend line above your usual order and test it with a cart in Duval County. The 2026 surtax table lists 1.5 percent for Duval, so a 100 dollar taxable cart there carries 1.50 dollars at the surtax rate, and the banner should say whether the spend line counts tax.
Run the gift as a one-week offer around the 50th Gate River Run, and end it the following Sunday. The Gate River Run's site announces March 6, 2027, so the event gives the offer a natural stop date.
Source: Gate River Run (JTC Running)
Start the offer only after the gift is on your shelf. If it comes through the port, JAXPORT's page lists on-dock rail at Blount Island and Dames Point, so ask your forwarder for the date the container leaves the terminal.
Source: JAXPORT: Port History
Re-read the Department of Revenue's surtax table. DR-15DSS is published for each calendar year, and the Duval row shows two surtaxes with end dates in 2030 and 2035, so a future table may differ from this one.
Build it with the Spend X, get a gift template.
Jacksonville is a city of 747.33 square miles of land, and an order can go to a downtown address or far out in the county. A gift that adds weight changes the price of the label for both, so cost the gift as its unit price plus its packaging plus the weight it adds, not its shelf price alone.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau: 2025 Gazetteer Files, Places, Florida
JAXPORT lists three marine terminals and on-dock rail at Blount Island and Dames Point. If your stock arrives in a container, your forwarder can tell you which terminal handles it and how the box leaves the port. That date, not the order date, is when a gift becomes available to give away.
Source: JAXPORT: Port History
The 50th Gate River Run is a single morning, March 6, 2027. A gift that is offered only that week, with the end date in the banner, ends before it can become a permanent discount.
Source: Gate River Run (JTC Running)
JAXPORT's statistics page lists 1,388,841 containers for fiscal year 2025, labeled "Containers (TEUs)" under its units heading.
JAXPORT: Statistics (fiscal year 2025) (accessed October 10, 2026)
The same page lists 506,237 "Automobiles" in units for fiscal year 2025, and a total tonnage of 10,230,114 with the unit not stated on the page.
JAXPORT: Statistics (fiscal year 2025) (accessed October 10, 2026)
JAXPORT's port history page says the ICTF provides on-dock rail service to its North Jacksonville seaport terminals, Blount Island and Dames Point, and lists a third marine terminal at Talleyrand.
JAXPORT: Port History (accessed October 10, 2026)
The same page says the SSA container terminal expansion helped expand JAXPORT's total container-handling capability to more than two million TEUs annually.
JAXPORT: Port History (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Florida Department of Revenue's DR-15DSS table for calendar year 2026 lists a total discretionary sales surtax of 1.5 percent for Duval County, made up of three 0.5 percent surtaxes that took effect on January 1, 1989 (no expiration), January 1, 2001 (expiring December 31, 2030) and January 1, 2021 (expiring December 31, 2035).
Florida Department of Revenue: DR-15DSS, Discretionary Sales Surtax Information for Calendar Year 2026 (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimate puts Jacksonville city at 1,017,689 residents, the largest of any Florida city in the same file, ahead of Miami at 489,812.
U.S. Census Bureau: Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places (Vintage 2025, SUB-EST2025) (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Census Bureau's 2025 Gazetteer lists Jacksonville city with 747.33 square miles of land and 127.129 square miles of water.
U.S. Census Bureau: 2025 Gazetteer Files, Places, Florida (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Gate River Run's website announces the 50th running of the Gate River Run 15K for March 6, 2027, in Jacksonville.
Gate River Run (JTC Running) (accessed October 10, 2026)
Not tax advice. Confirm current rules with the state revenue department before you rely on a date or an exemption.
