b'16American Journal ofTransportation ajot.comFlorida Atlantic Coast seaports enjoy record volumes,FLORIDA PORTS 2022advance enhancementsBy Paul Scott Abbott, AJOTRecord containerized cargobridges over the river, with the activity and advancement ofNorthwest 17th Avenue span infrastructureenhancementsnext on the list.highlightachievementsatInanotherdevelopment seaports of Floridas Atlanticrelated to facilitating safe vessel Coast. movement along the rivers 5 As the Florida Ports Coun- 1/2-mile-long,15-foot-deep cil continues to tout the open- channel, the U.S. Army Corps for-businesscapabilitiesofof Engineers has accepted the Sunshine State ports, includ- Miami River Marine Groups inginprovidingefficientpositiontodenyashoreline alternativestocongestedstructuredevelopmentplan supplychainsviatheU.S.that could have imposed nav-West Coast, Florida Atlanticigational restrictions.seaportsarehandlingmoreStepping up in the after-cargo than ever while severalmath of September earthquake are at last enjoying a return ofdevastation in Haiti, Seacoast cruise business that had met- Shipping dispatched more than aphorically run aground due$5millionindonatedtents, to the COVID-19 pandemic. (ENJOYcontinued onOffering services throughout the Caribbean and Bahamas, Tropical Shipping continues as the leading tenant at the Heres a rundown of thepage 17) Port of Palm Beach.latestatFloridaEastCoast ports,beginninginSouth Florida and progressing north-ward along the Interstate 95DEDICATED. RELIABLE.corridor:P oRT M iaMi BUILT TO SERVEMiami-DadeCountys PortMiami handled a record 1,254,064 twenty-foot-equiv-alentunitsofcontainerized cargo in its fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2021, up 17.6 per- For more than 35 years, TOTE has provided cent from its fiscal 2020 TEU count,whilereportingnoreliable, twice-weekly deliveries to Puerto congestion or delays along itsRico - offering a best-in-class customer 50-foot-deepmainshipping channel. experience.Thedeepchannel,super-post-Panamax cranes and direct tunnel connection between the islandseaportandInterstate highwaysystemareamong more than $1 billion in infra-structure enhancements com-pletedoverthepastseveral yearsatPortMiami,which inSeptemberaugmentedits calls by global alliance mega-containershipswithwelcom-ing of its first Turkey service, providedbyZIMIntegrated Shipping Services.Meanwhile, Juan Kuryla, who served 23 years at Port-Miami,thepastsevenas director,hasdepartedfora senior vice president position with Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings. Deputy Port Direc-torHydiWebb,whojoined the port in 1992, takes over asinterimdirectorwhilea global search for a successor gets launched.P oRT ofM iaMiR iVeRReplacement by the Flor-ida Department of Transporta-tion of a 93-year-old bascule bridge over the Miami River atSouthwestFirstStreet markedbyaJanuarycer-emonyiseasingvessel movementsatthePortof Miami River, which furnishes a critical link between South Florida and scores of shallow- @TOTE_MARITIMEdraftportsthroughoutthe1.877.775.7447Caribbeanregion.FDOTisTOTEMARITIME.COM TOTE MARITIMEmovingforwardwithaddi-tional work replacing vintage'