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placed on trucks that go from Palm Beach all the way
up to New York, you’re talking about 6,000 trucks. If
we were to not be here tomorrow, you will immediately
have 6,000 trucks on I-95, which is exactly what we
don’t need.”
When asked if the Port has to compete against others
in the state and region, for business, Almira responds
thusly: “The competition is really done at two levels
below us,” he says. “An individual exporter or importer,
an individual freight forwarder or custom broker, and
shippers and consignees are the ones who select
which service will bring them from point A to point B.
That being said, each port has similar services. For
example, we have Tropical Shipping. Tropical Shipping
then competes with Crowley [Maritime Corporation]
that happens to be in Port Everglades, or the likes of
Seaboard Marine that happens to be in the Port of Mi-
ami. So, we compete, however, we really do not, as a
