126 Business View Magazine - July 2016
The Port of Palm Beach
Import, export, your port
The Port of Palm Beach is located on Florida’s Atlantic
coast, about 80 miles north of Miami and 135 miles
south of Port Canaveral. The Port of Palm Beach Dis-
trict covers a land area of 971 square miles or approxi-
mately 50 percent of Palm Beach County, while the
port, itself, covers 162 acres. It’s the fourth-busiest
container port in the state and the 18th-busiest in the
nation, functioning largely as an export hub, with ap-
proximately 80 percent of its cargo heading outbound,
primarily to the island nations of the nearby Caribbean
region.
The area in which the Port is situated has been utilized
as a shipping hub for nearly 150 years; early settlers
and their descendants worked to build and improve
access to waterborne commerce on the northern
