310 Evernia St.
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
International Access for Trade
WHETHER by water, air, or rail, Palm Beach County boasts an efficient, integrated transportation system, from a major international airport and three commercial/executive airports to an expanding port that ranks among the state's finest.
Palm Beach County's strategic location is ideal for trade, because of its location between
Port of Palm Beach
"With easy access to the Florida Turnpike and Interstate 95, along with two major railways (FEC and CSX), the Port of Palm Beach is primed for business." The Port of Palm Beach, the fourth busiest port in Florida with $3 billion in goods passing through annually, is the only South Florida port facility operating its own rail system with pier-side rail box, hopper and intermodal cars operating 24 hours a day. The Port now is undergoing an expansion scheduled for completion in 1999. It has has several key components that will significantly enhance the Port's current facilities, which include 25 berths, two slips, four marginal wharves, six ro/ro ramps, 200,000 square feet of warehouse space and 43 acres of open storage, among other facets.
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A Foreign Trade Zone at the Port has been in operation since 1987, encompassing several Port-owned sites, one sub-zone in Boca Raton and in the near future, all five zones in the county as well as several high-tech sites in Martin County. Activated areas will include the cargo handling bays of the Port's cruise terminal, as well as the entire facility of the Port of Palm Beach Cold Storage facility (POPBCS), which operates a 100,000-square-foot facility. Once the Skypass project is fully operational, the POPBCS will be located vessel-side to be the largest such facility in South Florida.
Airports
Palm Beach International Airport, centrally located in West Palm Beach and easily accessible from I-95, is one of the largest medium-hub airports in the United States. PBIA underwent a major, $150 million expansion in 1988, including the construction of a new 530,000-square-foot terminal with 25 gates and the potential for 24 more.
PBIA's services include Customs Port of Entry, Immigration, private aircraft maintenance, air cargo and international air. Thirty-five airlines currently offer scheduled flights from PBIA to destinations throughout the continental United States, and direct international flights are available to the Bahamas and Canada. Flights to any destination in the world are available from Miami International Airport, just a commuter flight away.
Roughly 6 million people a year pass through PBIA, and that's expected to jump to nine million by the year 2011. Commercial airlines, including commuter aircraft, fly in and out of the airport about 80,000 times a year. General aviation, freight and other flights total 117,000 a year, Approximately 31,000 tons of cargo pass through PBIA annually.
Palm Beach County also offers three local commercial/executive airports: Boca Raton Airport in south county, which features a 5,200-foot runway; Lantana Airport in central county, with its 3,500-foot runway; and North County General Aviation Airport -- the newest of the three -- features a 4,300-foot runway within 700 acres west of Beeline Highway.
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Phone: 561 835-1008