November 19, 2025
Florida's SeaPort Manatee sets cargo records in fiscal 2025
More cargo is flowing through SeaPort Manatee than ever in the 55-year history of the maritime trade hub for Southwest and Central Florida, according to record results reported for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30.
SeaPort Manatee handled an all-time-high total throughput of 11,855,828 tons of cargo in fiscal 2025, slimly surpassing the prior record of 11,779,601 tons moved in fiscal 2024, while also reporting best-ever levels of liquid and dry bulk activity.
Petroleum products and juices were key contributors to the record 6,400,844 tons of liquid bulk moving through SeaPort Manatee in fiscal 2025, up 8 percent from the preceding 12-month period, while the dry bulk pinnacle of 3,442,991 tons up 9.7 percent from fiscal 2024 was boosted by consistent flows of such commodities as phosphate rock, granite and limestone.
Breakbulk tonnage rose 10.4 percent from fiscal 2024, reaching 793,128 tons in the recently completed 12-month period, with Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A. Inc. shifting the way it imports tropical fruits from containerized to breakbulk manner. Commensurately, SeaPort Manatee's containerized cargo volume declined to 919,556 tons from the record 1,283,027 tons the preceding fiscal year, and the number of 20-foot-equivalent units handled declined to 133,456 from the record 168,897 TEUs of a year earlier.
Located in Southwest Florida, at the entrance to Tampa Bay, SeaPort Manatee is a dynamic global trade hub, serving as the vibrant ships-to-shelves gateway for burgeoning Southwest and Central Florida markets, with convenient rail and roadway links, including to the distribution-center-filled Tampa/Orlando Interstate 4 corridor.
Source: SeaPort Manatee