PortMiami

Having completed more than $1 billion of capital projects over the past few years, Miami Dade County’s PortMiami is setting records while being called upon by a growing number of post-Panamax vessels deployed by global ocean carrier alliances.

In its fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2018, the port handled an all-time high of nearly 1.1 million 20-foot-equivalent units of containerized cargo. Since bringing its channel depth to 50 feet (plus 2 feet of overdredge) in 2015, the port has worked more than 270 megacontainerships that could not have been accommodated prior to completion of the new infrastructure, which also includes a direct tunnel link to the Interstate highway system, upgraded on-dock rail and additional super-post-Panamax container cranes.

Numerous improvements have been made at Seaboard Marine’s dedicated facility, while a cargo densification project has just gotten under way at the South Florida Container Terminal. Further projects now advancing include enhanced gate technology, more refrigerated cargo racks and three or four additional super-post-Panamax cranes, to join the six such big gantries that currently are part of PortMiami’s contingent of 13 ship-to-shore cranes.