Port Tampa Bay

Port Tampa Bay slices warehouse operator’s payments

The coronavirus pandemic has spoiled a chunk of the fruit import business in the United States. Because of that decline, Port Tampa Bay’s board this week took a big slice out of a refrigerated warehouse tenant’s monthly payments. 

The board on Tuesday agreed to defer a $25,000 monthly loan payment for seven years and drop rent from $31,000 a month to 5% of revenues once those hit $5 million annually.

Port Logistics Tampa Bay leases 13.7 acres of land with a 140,000-square-foot refrigerated...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/port-tampa-bay-slices-warehouse-operators-payments

Tampa Bay strengthens container capabilities with federal grant

Port Tampa Bay, the largest port in Florida, is aiming to expand container capacity by 60% taking advantage of a US$19.8 million federal grant.

These funds are a part of the United States Department of Transportation’s INFRA Grant programme, which recognises innovative projects that improve US infrastructure in critical areas.

Port Tampa Bay will use the grant money to complete the Berth 214 project, which is an intermodal development with the ability to connect cargo arriving by ship to road or...

https://container-news.com/tampa-bay-strengthens-container-capabilities-with-federal-grant/

Port Tampa Bay welcomes new Asia container service

Port Tampa Bay welcomes the three leading global container shipping companies – ZIM, Mediterranean Shipping Company and Maersk – that they will launch a new joint direct service from Asia to the US Gulf, including weekly calls at Port Tampa Bay.

The new service will deploy 10 ships of 4,500 TEU capacity on the following rotation:

Xiamen – Yantian – Busan– (Panama Canal transit) – Houston – Mobile – Tampa – Manzanillo – (Panama Canal transit) – Balboa – Busan.   

The first sailing will depart...

https://container-news.com/port-tampa-bay-welcomes-new-asia-container-service/

Photos: Port Tampa Bay Welcomes Its Biggest Container Ship ‘CMA CGM Dalila’

The CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics, is pleased to announce it made its first call at Port Tampa Bay today with the arrival of the 8,469-TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units) CMA CGM DALILA on the PEX3 service.

Image Credits: PortTampaBay

With the PEX3 service, CMA CGM reaffirms its commitment to Central Florida

Port Tampa Bay is the closest port to Florida’s fastest growing region and its largest consumer market – the Tampa Bay/Orlando I-4 Corridor. Home to almost half of the...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/photos-port-tampa-bay-welcomes-its-biggest-container-ship-cma-cgm-dalila/

CMA CGM smashes Tampa Bay container ship record

Port Tampa Bay is marking a major milestone and partnership with CMA CGM as Port customers, local officials, and business leaders gather to celebrate the inaugural call of the CMA CGM DALILA at 4 pm on June 13 at The Ports America Terminal. 

CMA CGM Group begun their weekly direct ocean carrier service between Asia and Port Tampa Bay on June 13. CMA CGM’s excellent transit times will significantly improve the competitiveness of the region’s importers and exporters, transforming Tampa Bay’s...

https://container-news.com/cma-cgm-smashes-tampa-bay-container-ship-record/

Port Tampa Bay sets the stage for more

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....

https://container-news.com/port-tampa-bay-sets-stage-more/

CMA CGM to begin serving Port Tampa Bay

Port Tampa Bay welcomes the announcement by the CMA CGM Group, a leading worldwide shipping group, that it will begin serving Port Tampa Bay in late May 2019 on its Pacific Express 3, or PEX3 service. With a presence in 160 countries and a fleet of 506 vessels, CMA CGM serves over 420 ports across the globe and is a member of the Ocean Alliance.

The PEX3 port service rotation will be as follows: Singapore – Vung Tau – Hong Kong – Shekou – Ningbo – Shanghai – Busan – Panama Canal – Houston –...

https://container-news.com/cma-cgm-serving-port-tampa-bay/

COSCO giant vessel calls Port Tampa Bay

On Tuesday Jan. 29, one of the world’s largest shipping container companies docked its cargo ship, the M/V PIRAEUS, in Port Tampa Bay. It is now one of the largest ships to ever dock in the port.

The cargo ship is the result of a deal many years in the making between the port and Cosco Shipping Lines. It allows a new and faster way for companies to import and export goods across the world.

“This open a direct Asian service, a shipping call, [allows us] to be able to serve the I-4 corridor and the...

http://container-news.com/cosco-vessel-port-tampa-bay/

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