Port of Palm Beach

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Map of the Channel and Harbor of Port of Palm Beach

The Port of Palm Beach is located in Riviera Beach, Florida, in Palm Beach County, at coordinates 26°46′01″N, 80°03′04″W. The Port is an independent taxing district, with a five-member board of commissioners elected at large by voters within the district. The Port district covers a land area of 971 square miles or approximately fifty percent of the Palm Beach County area. The port is administered by an Executive Director and professional staff of 49 full time employees.

The Port of Palm Beach is located 80 miles north of Miami and 135 miles south of Port Canaveral. The 300 foot wide ship channel and 1,100 by 1,400 foot turning basin are in Lake Worth, and connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Lake Worth Inlet. The nominal depth at mean low water of the channel and turning basin is 32 feet. The Port has three slips, four marginal wharves and two roll-on/roll-off ramps, and a cruise terminal.

The Port of Palm Beach is the fourth busiest container port in Florida and the eighteenth busiest in the continental United States. In addition to intermodal capacity, the Port is a major nodal point for the shipment of bulk sugar, molasses, cement, utility fuels, water, produce and breakbulk items.

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In Fiscal Year 2005 (October, 2004 through September, 2005), the Port of Palm Beach served 2,441 ships carrying more than 1.1 million short tons in approximately 120,000 containers each inbound and outbound, more than 4 million short tons of breakbulk, bulk and dry cargo, and more than 550,000 cruise passengers.