Facilities to Meet Shipping Needs
More than 3,000 cargo vessels are moving nearly 24 million tons of cargo including containerized cargo, break bulk, dry bulk and petroleum products through Port Everglades. As the busiest container port in the Florida, Port Everglades offers a full range of facilities and services for the cargo shipping industry. The Port's current facilities and planned expansions focus on transferring and storing all that waterborne commerce as smoothly and efficiently as possible.
Current Cargo facilities include:
- 324 acres of open yard storage space in Midport and Southport
- 200 petroleum storage tanks
- 300,000 square feet/27,800 square meters of transit warehouse space
- 1.6 million cubic feet of refrigerated storage
- 400 reefer outlets
Additional facilities and equipment include cement silos, dockside transit cargo terminals, a convenient Foreign-Trade Zone with U.S. Customs-protected warehousing and nine gantry cranes to assist with the loading and unloading of containers.
Simplified Cargo Transfer
Many ships are are equiped with their own cranes and unload their cargo directly onto the Port's docks, waiting trucks or into "hoppers," large funnels that empty into trucks. The Port also provides a variety of transfer methods, including cranes (lift-on/lift-off), ramps (roll-on/roll-off or ro-ro), special float-on/float-off operations for yachts, loading arms, pipelines and hoses for liquid cargo, and pneumatic unloaders for dry bulk products such as cement. Whatever the cargo delivered, the Port accommodates shippers' requests.
Open Yard Area
| Site | Acres | Uses |
| Southport | ||
| Southport Terminal | 155 | Containers/Trailers |
| Southport Phase V (A&B) | 38 | Containers/Trailers |
| Southport Phase VI | 45 | Containers/Trailers |
| Future Development 271 Acres: Containers / Trailers, Warehousing, Intermodal Container Transfer Facility. | ||
| Midport | ||
| Midport Container Yards | 44 | Containers |
| Midport Mini Basin | 15 | Containers |
| Berth 29 | 18 | Neobulk/Containers |
| Northport | ||
| West of Building 4 | 4 | Containers |
| West of Berth 4A | 4 | Containers |
| Pier 2 | 1 | Neobulk/Containers |
Transit Warehouse Facilities
| Warehouse | Square Footage | Square Meters |
| 1 | 50,000 | 4,645 |
| 4 | 65,000 | 6,039 |
| 6 | 17,500 | 1,626 |
| 19 | 50,000 | 4,645 |
| TOTAL | 299,384 | 27,813 |
Roll-on / Roll-off Ramp Facilities
| Berth Location | Width (feet / meters) | Depth (feet / meters) |
| 1 | 70 ft / 21.3 m | 31 ft / 9.5 m |
| 4 | 145 ft / 44.2 m | 43 ft / 13.1 m |
| 5A | 145 ft / 44.2 m | 43 ft / 13.1 m |
| 18 | 43 ft / 13.1 m | 38 ft / 11.6 m |
| 19 | 84 ft / 25.6 m | 38 ft / 11.6 m |
| 33A | 140 ft / 42.7 m | 44 ft / 13.4 m |
| 33B | 120 ft / 36.6 m | 44 ft / 13.4 m |
| 33C | 120 ft / 36.6 m | 44 ft / 13.4 m |
Reefer & Freezer
Port Everglades Cold Storage's privately owned and operated refrigerated warehouse (tel: 954-764-1781) centrally located in the Midport area offers more than 68,000 square feet of variable-temperature storage. For outdoor storage, there are approximately 400 reefer outlets throughout the seaport, primarily 3-phase, 480-volt, 60-cycle, 100-amp plugs.
