Port Everglades' ideal global crossroads location combines
with the Port's exceptional facilities and services to provide an
unsurpassed hub for international trade for a diverse range of
containerized and non-containerized goods. It is little wonder
that more than 30 shipping lines count upon the Port to
furnish the most strategic place for swiftly moving cargo.
Among ports of the South Atlantic, Port Everglades - the
nation's 11th busiest container port - moves a dominant
share of containerized cargo trade with Central America,
has assumed leadership in commerce with the North Coast
of South America and is expanding its horizons with a
growing presence in other geographical markets, including
Asia and Europe. The Port already offers services to
some 150 ports in 70 countries throughout the world.
With Hapag-Lloyd Container Line's February 2007
shift to Port Everglades for the Florida call in its
Mediterranean Gulf Express (MGX) Service, the Port's
role in European trade gets a further boost. Mediterranean
Gulf Express (MGX) Service rotation will include calls at
Masaxlokk, Gioia Tauro, Livorno, Genoa, Barcelona,
Valencia, Port Everglades, Houston and New Orleans.
Hapag-Lloyd also shifted its US Gulf-South America
Eastcoast Loop to Port Everglades, although it has been
suspended temporarily.
With Hapag-Lloyd, which will be handled by marine
terminal operator Florida International Terminals (F.I.T.),
Port Everglades now hosts four of the world's top five
container carriers including Maersk, MSC and Evergreen.
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Services linking Port Everglades with the Far East - already
provided on a weekly basis by MSC and by Zim Container
Line with Evergreen America Corp. - should see future gains
with the expansion of the Panama Canal.
In the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2006, Port Everglades
posted a second consecutive year of record growth in
containerized cargo handled, moving 5,688,442 tons of
containerized cargo, up 12 percent from 5,076,403 tons in
fiscal 2005. As measured in 20-foot container equivalent
units (TEUs), Port Everglades' fiscal 2006 throughput rose
8.4 percent, to 864,030 TEUs from 797,238 TEUs the
preceding fiscal year.
While the Port's total cargo tonnage, including containerized
and non-containerized cargoes, held steady at 27 million tons
for fiscal 2006, as petroleum volumes declined due to reduced
consumer demand, several non-containerized commodity
segments continued to show gains.
Port Everglades' handling of breakbulk cargoes, including
steel and lumber, increased more than 31 percent in fiscal
2006, to 344,528 tons from 262,130 tons in fiscal 2005.
Dry bulk, including cement and aggregate, increased nearly
4 percent, to 2,954,310 tons from 2,848,333 tons in fiscal
2005. Both these segments are fueled by South Florida's
healthy construction industry.
Also on the rise are the Port's handlings of floating and
rolling cargoes. Yachts and boats transported through Port
Everglades weighed in at a total of 57,668 tons in fiscal 2006,
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