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Port Manatee has been awarded a $946,950 federal security grant, enabling the Central Florida Gulf Coast port to double the number of outbound lanes at its main gate to securely accommodate increasing cargo volume.
“With Port Manatee’s dynamic growth in containerized cargo activity, having more lanes in place is essential to continuing to meet stringent federal requirements for screening of outbound containers,” Carlos Buqueras, the port’s executive director, said today. “We ...
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Port Manatee’s container volume for the first 10 months of its current fiscal year has already reached a full-year record.
During the 10-month period from Oct. 1, 2016, through July 31, 2017, Port Manatee saw moves of 32,907 twenty-foot-equivalent container units – significantly more than the Florida Gulf port’s full-year high mark of ...
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Port Manatee and Chile are pursuing considerable opportunities to boost two-way trade, according to a Chilean official who visited the Central Florida Gulf Coast port on June 15.
“We’re looking forward to developing a closer commercial relationship,” said Sacha Garafulic, who serves as trade commissioner of Chile in his position as ...
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Port Manatee has extended its agreement with World Direct Shipping to maintain its swift weekly service between the Florida Gulf Coast port from the Mexican state of Veracruz for as many as five more years.
Under a lengthened pact approved on April 20 by the Manatee County Port Authority, World Direct ...
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Offering enhanced capabilities for movement of oversized cargo, Port Manatee’s newly expanded south gate complex is now open. A Dec. 15 ribbon-cutting formally celebrated completion of the $1.1 million project that features new gates, guard kiosk, canopy and lighting, as well as reconfigured security fencing.
Widened entry and exit ...
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Port Manatee has promoted Denise Stufflebeam to senior director of business administration and finance and Virginia Zimmermann to senior communications manager.
Stufflebeam, who has served since 2013 as Port Manatee’s director of business administration and finance, joined the port in 1991 as information services assistant and subsequently received promotions to data ...
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Florida’s Gulf seaport of Port Manatee reports a 36% year-over-year increase in containerized cargo handled in the first half of its fiscal year.
During the six-month period from Oct. 1, 2015, through March 31, 2016, Port Manatee docks saw moves of 12,653 TEUS, up from 9,321 TEUs in the comparable year-earlier ...
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Signifying Port Manatee’s burgeoning role as a containerized cargo gateway, Port Manatee reports it handled 83% more container units in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30 than in the preceding 12-month period.
In the just-ended fiscal year, Port Manatee’s docks saw moves of 25,778 TEUs, compared with 14,078 TEUs in the ...
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Port Manatee has gained federal approval to receive direct imports of select cold-treated South American produce via an expanding pilot program.
Port Manatee may begin participation in the Florida Perishables Trade Coalition pilot program effective Oct. 1, according to approval received Sept. 10 from officials of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ...
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