Port 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 products
  • Finished phosphate fertilizers
  • Non-ferrous metals
  • Cement and cement clinker
  • Steel
  • Project cargo such as power plant and bridge components, heavy machinery and over-sized vehicles
 Primary Cargoes


 

Top Imports and Exports

  Petroleum Products Import Top Imports and Exports
  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.
 Location


 

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
 
  Nearby Interstates and HighwaysInterstate 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
 Foreign Trade Zone


 

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:

Distance From Port Manatee

  Bradenton 12.3 miles Atlanta, Ga. 489.7 miles
  Sarasota 23.5 miles Charleston, S.C. 490.8 miles
  St. Petersburg 23.7 miles Mobile, Ala. 548.5 miles
  Tampa 41.3 miles Charlotte, N.C. 636.2 miles
  Lakeland 62.5 miles New Orleans, La. 690.8 miles
  Ft. Myers 95.8 miles Nashville, Tenn. 739.4 miles
  Orlando 111.6 miles Richmond, Va. 852.9 miles
  Naples 136.0 miles Washington, D.C. 936.0 miles
  Miami 249.3 miles Houston, Texas 1,014.4 miles
  Jacksonvile 251.7 miles Indianapolis, Ind. 1,024.6 miles
  Tallahassee 308.1 miles Chicago, Ill. 1,208.6 miles

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

SOURCE: Decision Data Resources, October 2009; Labor Market Statistics, Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation; Manatee Economic Development Council

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