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Port Manatee extends agreement with World Direct Shipping

[ May 30, 2017   //   ]

Port Manatee has extended its agreement with World Direct Shipping to maintain its swift weekly service between the Florida Gulf Coast port from the Mexican state of Veracruz for as many as five more years.

Under a lengthened pact approved on April 20 by the Manatee County Port Authority, World Direct Shipping has committed to bring refrigerated produce and other goods into Port Manatee from the Port of Coatzacoalcos through at least Dec. 31, 2019, with a pair of one-year options extending through the end of 2021.

Since begun in November 2014, the weekly World Direct Shipping service has carried increasing volumes of refrigerated produce from Mexico while returning from Port Manatee with paper, recycled materials and oversized cargos.

World Direct Shipping has moved nearly 300,000 tons of cargo through Port Manatee to date and last July deployed the 430-foot-long M/V Queen B to accommodate steadily growing trade.

“Extension of the agreement with World Direct Shipping ensures continuation of a positive relationship with a valued partner of Port Manatee,” said Vanessa Baugh, chairwoman of the Manatee County Port Authority.

Port Manatee’s executive director, Carlos Buqueras, said, “We look forward to continuing to work with World Direct Shipping for many years to come.”

 

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