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FTZ No. 281
Big Ship Ready: Target of July 2015
Rail: Florida East Coast Railway
Highways: I-95, I-395
Top Exports: Woven knitted Fabrics, Machinery, Food
Cargo Types: Containers
What infrastructure additions has your port made to support shippers over the past two years?
PortMiami will be a 50 feet of water depth come August of this year. The second major investment came online last year and it was a tunnel that connects PortMiami to the highway system. And the third major access project is the intermodal rail program that we’ve put together with our partner FEC Rail. That includes a $50 million investment to create an on-dock intermodal yard at the port of Miami.
What’s your biggest locational advantage?
We are the shopping cart of America when it comes to containerized cargo trade, whereby by we import goods from all over the world and re-export them into the Americas. Secondly, we’re the first port for a vessel transiting the Panama Canal heading up the East Coast of the United States.
What exciting developments are on the horizon?
After we’ve improved our three modes of access for ships, trucks and intermodal rail, we plan on improving our crane capacity and density of our cargo yards. As the ships planning to call on Miami are getting larger, we have to be more efficient on the dock and in the terminal.
