Now that its cargo business is ramping up, thanks largely to two new weekly container ships from Asia, Port Tampa Bay has a new challenge: keeping up with its growth.
“We’re sort of the dog that caught the car,” Port Tampa Bay president and chief executive officer Paul Anderson said Tuesday. “We’ve got to handle two (new) weekly ocean services. That’s an additional 104 vessel calls per year of some of the largest ships that have ever come to Port Tampa Bay.”
The growth didn’t come out of nowhere....