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Port Manatee is Changing it's Name to: SeaPort Manatee
SeaPort Manatee had an all-time-high in traffic during their last fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, 2021, this included a record 135,660 twenty-foot-equivalent units of containerized cargo, up 53.3 percent from fiscal 2020, and more than three-and-a-half times the container throughput in fiscal 2018.
On the way... is a $13.1 million project to more than double the port’s dockside container yard to 23.5 acres, which is near completion as the center of a $74 million capital improvement plan, while also advancing a blueprint for future development on thousands of acres both on and adjacent to the port’s bayfront facilities.
Latest estimates say that SeaPort Manatee generates more than $3.9 billion in annual economic impacts while providing for more than 27,000 direct and indirect jobs.