Port Manatee

About 20,500 gallons of polluted water leaked into the basin last month. The Coast Guard said that 99% of the spill was cleaned by Sept. 12, with all remaining oil residue cleaned by Sept. 21. About 6.4 tons of oily debris was cleaned from the area.

SeaPort Manatee is slowly getting back up on its feet after the recent oil leak that polluted over 20,500 gallons of seawater.

The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating an oil spill at Port Manatee that caused over 19,000 gallons of polluted water. With a lot of unknowns, environmentalists are calling for more transparency into details of the spill.

Cargo traffic at Florida’s 16 seaports is slightly ahead of pre-pandemic numbers, while the cruise industry is expected to return to pre-pandemic passenger counts this year.

While Florida ports have been working since before the pandemic to attract more cargo routes, experts say this latest push may not provide a quick fix to supply chain bottlenecks.

House Appropriations Chairman Jay Trumbull also wants them to urge their local representatives to push for infrastructure money so Florida doesn’t “lose out” to ports in Alabama and Georgia.

But the recovery is expected to take longer for the multibillion-dollar passenger cruise industry.

Piney Point's owner is among the targets of the lawsuit, which seeks a full cleanup and closure of the former phosphate plant.

Florida’s ports are asking for help from the federal government for heavy losses related to the cornavirus pandemic.Since March, cargo traffic at…

Port Manatee has opened an office in Chile. The South American nation is one of the state's top trading partners. Chile and Florida exchanged nearly $8…

Port Manatee set a new record for cargo traffic in 2018.The Palmetto-based seaport topped 10 million tons of cargo for the first time in its 50-year…

A shipment of Chiquita bananas arrived at Port Tampa Bay last week, making it the first perishable product received by the port in over two…