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The port serves container ships, tank ships, and cruise lines. As of 2023, Port Tampa Bay ranks 24th in the United States by total trade in cargo tonnage. [5] It is the largest, most diversified port in Florida, has an economic impact of more than $15.1 billion, and supports over 80,000 jobs.
It carries about 18 million short tons of cargo each year [4] and has an annual economic impact of over $31 billion, including 138,500 jobs across the state of Florida related to cargo moving through the port. [5] It handled 1,338,000 containers, and is the second largest handler of vehicles in the United States with 696,500 in 2019. [6]
It is the largest container port in the state of Florida and ninth in the United States. Over 9.6 million tons of cargo and over 1 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) (FY 2018/2019) of intermodal container traffic move through the seaport per year. The economic impact from cargo operations at PortMiami to Florida amounts to $35 billion. [7]
North American container ports. This is a list of ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage. [1] Ports in the United States handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy, including petroleum, grain, steel, automobiles, and containerized goods.
This article lists the world's busiest container ports (ports with container terminals that specialize in handling goods transported in intermodal shipping containers), by total number of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) transported through the port. The table lists volume in thousands of TEU per year.
Jacksonville’s port is one of the largest commercial cargo ports on the Atlantic Coast. [6] JAXPORT controls docks and wharfs, cranes, a passenger cruise terminal, warehouses, paved open storage areas, and road connections to the public highway system.
This is a list of the busiest seaports by cargo tonnage, the total mass, or in some cases volume, of actual cargo transported through the port. The rankings are based on AAPA world port ranking data.
Today, the Port of Tampa is the largest port in Florida in throughput tonnage, making it one of the busiest commercial ports in North America. [24] Petroleum and phosphate are the lead commodities, accounting for two-thirds of the 37 million tons of total bulk and general cargo handled by the port in 2009. [25]