Port of Palm Beach

The Port of Palm Beach is located in Riviera Beach, Florida, in Palm Beach County, at coordinates coord|26|46|01|N|80|03|04|W|region:US_type:landmark. 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 convert|971|sqmi|km2 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 convert|80|mi|km north of Miami and convert|135|mi|km south of Port Canaveral. The convert|300|ft|m|sing=on wide ship channel and 1,100 by convert|1400|ft|m|sing=on 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 convert|32|ft|m. 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.

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.

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* [http://www.portofpalmbeach.com/about_us.htm Port of Palm Beach] - accessed December 23 2005