General Description
Location: Port Manatee is situated on the E shore of Tampa Bay, Florida. General overview: Port Manatee has berths for deep draught vessels and barge berths for shallow draught vessels. The port handles containers, citrus juices, asphalt, bananas, cement, general cargo, lumber, petroleum, phosphate, scrap metal and steel. Traffic figures: Approx 9,300,000t of cargo handled annually. Load line zone: Summer. Max size: LOA 259m, draught 12.1m. Largest vessel handled: "MW Chandos" LOA 259m.