port manatee facts
Port Manatee handles approximately 9 million tons of cargo each year.
primary cargoes
- Tropical fruits and vegetables
- Citrus juices and beverages
- Forestry products
- Refined petroleum product
- Finished phosphate fertilizers
- Non-ferrous metal
- Cement and cement clinke
- Steel
- Project cargo such as power plant and bridge components, heavy machinery and over-sized vehicles
top imports and exports
Petroleum Products - Import
Cement Products - Import
Fertilizer - Export
Forestry Products - Import
Fruit - Import
Orange Juice - Import and Export
Natural Gas - Import
Automobiles - Export
Port Manatee has more than one million square feet of public warehouse and office space, featuring 202,000 square feet of refrigerated space, including 30,000 square feet of freezer space.
The port offers nearly one-and-one-half miles of berthing for ships. Another 1,584 feet of deepwater berthing is set for completion in 2010 with the opening of Berth 12.
location
- Port Manatee is located in the eastern Gulf of Mexico at the entrance to Tampa Bay.
- It is the closest U.S. deepwater seaport to the Panama Canal.
- The port is located in west central Florida on the Gulf Coast.
- Eight million Floridians live within two hours of Port Manatee.
- With thousands of acres of nearby vacant land, Port Manatee has room to grow.
- Latitude 27° 38’ 3” north, Longitude 83° 33’ 30” west.
highway connectivity
Port Manatee offers exceptional highway and interstate connections with 60-mph access to Interstate 75 and Interstate 275. Trucks leaving Port Manatee reach I-75 and I-275 in less than four minutes via U.S. Highway 41 without encountering a single stoplight.
nearby interstates and highways
- Interstate 4
- Interstate 75
- Interstate 275
- U.S. Highway 41
- U.S. Highway 19
- U.S. Highway 301
railroad
Operating 24 hours a day to accommodate customer needs, Port Manatee’s Class III railroad connects to CSX rail lines with two switch engines (1,600 and 1,700 horsepower) and nine miles of standard gauge track, 20 switches, nine crossings and 300-car capacity.
reefer plugs
- Reefer Plug Capacity - 208
- Reefer Plugs - 168
- Portable Receptacles - 40
manatee harbor channel
- The port is 12 miles from the Egmont Key pilot station, including 2.95 miles from the intersection of Cut B in the main Tampa Bay Shipping Channel
- Draft: 40 feet at mean low water
- Width: 400 feet at toe of slope
port manatee turning basin
Diameter: 1,300 feet
draft
Berths 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11:
40-foot draft
Berth 12:
20-foot draft (to be deepened to 40-foot draft in 2010)
maximum vessel length
Panamax
foreign trade zone
169
cranes
Two Gottwald Mobile Harbor Container Cranes (#2 crane to be certified operational in 2010)
Multi-purpose cranes handling containers, project, heavy-lift, bulk, breakbulk and general cargo.
- Lifting capacity: 100 tons at 80 feet
- Reach: 13-container-wide reach
- Container moves: up to 25 containers per hour
- Maximum radius: 167 feet
- Hoisting speed: 100 tons – 66 feet per minute; 45 tons – 132 feet per minute
- Height: 131 feet
- Height from ground with boom elevated to 36 feet radius point: 257 feet
- Eye view from operator’s cab: 85 feet
- Crane weight operational: 420 tons
scale house
Hours of operation: 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday though Friday.
Available 24 hours a day with advance notice.
distance from port manatee to:
Bradenton Sarasota St. Petersburg Tampa Lakeland Ft. Myers Orlando Naples Miami Jacksonvile Tallahassee |
Atlanta, Ga. Charleston, S.C. Mobile, Ala. Charlotte, N.C. New Orleans, La. Nashville, Tenn. Richmond, Va. Washington, D.C. Houston, Texas Indianapolis, Ind. Chicago, Ill. |
manatee county and tampa bay at a glance
Manatee County is home to more than 318,176 residents and is growing at a faster rate than Tampa Bay’s neighboring Hillsborough, Pinellas and Sarasota counties.
manatee county
Population (2009) - 318,176
Projected Population (2014) - 326,072
Labor Force (2009) - 143,094
Median Household Income (2009 estimate) - $51,321
tampa bay
The communities of Bradenton, Clearwater, Lakeland, Sarasota, St. Petersburg and Tampa. The counties of Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk and Sarasota.
Population (2009) - 4 million
Labor Force (20099) - 1.9 million
Total Businesses (2009) - 156,000
Source: 2009 Tampa Bay Partnership
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