With infrastructure investments totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, seaports along Florida’s Atlantic Coast continue to gear up to handle growing volumes of global commerce.
Meanwhile, cruise activity provides stabilizing diversification as it contributes significantly to success of several Florida ports, including PortMiami, Port Everglades, Port Canaveral, Jacksonville Port Authority and the Port of Palm Beach on the East Coast, as well as Port Tampa Bay on the Gulf side.
And Florida port officials, especially those on the Atlantic side, are enthused about the recent designation by President Trump of Broward County native Laura DiBella as chair of the Federal Maritime Commission. DiBella launched her maritime career in 2017 as port director of Northeast Florida’s Port of Fernandina…