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The port serves container ships, tank ships, and cruise lines. As of 2023, Port Tampa Bay ranks 24th in the United States by total trade in cargo tonnage. [5] It is the largest, most diversified port in Florida, has an economic impact of more than $15.1 billion, and supports over 80,000 jobs.
On 13 April 2024 in the Gulf of Oman, off the Emirati port city of Fujairah, [78] the IRGC Navy boarded and seized container ship MSC Aries, claiming she was "violating maritime laws". [79] She was flying the ensign of Portugal. [80] [81] [82] MSC Aries is leased by MSC from Gortal Shipping Inc., an affiliate of Zodiac Maritime (ZM).
In late 2021 and the first month of 2022, container ships have remained at American ports unloading goods for seven days on average, 21 percent higher than at the start of the pandemic. The mayhem at ports and shipping yards was a key driver for rising prices together with the market dominance of major companies.
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [2]
It is the largest container port in the state of Florida and ninth in the United States. Over 9.6 million tons of cargo and over 1 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) (FY 2018/2019) of intermodal container traffic move through the seaport per year. The economic impact from cargo operations at PortMiami to Florida amounts to $35 billion. [7]
JAXPORT is the largest port by volume in Florida, and the 14th largest container port in the United States. [3] It carries about 18 million short tons of cargo each year [4] and has an annual economic impact of over $31 billion, including 138,500 jobs across the state of Florida related to cargo moving through the port. [5]
MSC Oscar was the subject of an episode of the documentary television program Mighty Ships, [8] the second episode of the tenth series. Produced by a Canadian company, Exploration Production Inc., the program was first telecast in Canada on 10 December 2017. [ 9 ]
MSC Gülsün, at the time of her launch in 2019, was the world's largest container ship. Built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea, she is almost 62 metres (203 ft 5 in) wide and 400 metres (1,312 ft 4 in) long.