Costa Rican group’s fact finding visit to Port Everglades

Costa Rica ranks as Port Everglades’ second largest export and third largest import trading partner, accounting for nearly 50,000 teu, 76% of all of Florida’s waterborne trade with the Central American country.

“Central America, of which Costa Rica is a major component, is Port Everglades’ primary market and we intend to build on our success through infrastructure investments that will ensure the port can handle larger vessels and higher volumes in the future,” Port Everglades Deputy Director Glenn Wiltshire told the delegation, which was organized by the US Department of Commerce.

Three critical expansion projects which are currently underway at Port Everglades are expected to be completed within the next two to five years and will add five new cargo berths, widen and deepen the Port’s channels to 50 feet (15.2 m) and add a new, state of the art on-dock rail facility that will be built and operated by the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC).