Port Tampa Bay Lands New Container Shipping Service
A new weekly container shipping service has arrived at Port Tampa Bay.
Linea Peninsular, a Panama City-based shipping company, has signed a deal to begin a container shipping service between Mexico and Tampa, according to a news release.
The weekly, fixed-day service calls Port Tampa Bay every Tuesday to and from the ports of Altamira and Progreso in Mexico. The 2 1/2-day trip from northern Mexico and two-day trip to the Yucatan peninsula offers a new option for delivering products from Tampa Bay.
The service will deliver container goods, including refrigerated goods, and also can accommodate break-bulk cargo.
"We are delighted to welcome Linea Peninsular to Port Tampa Bay," Paul Anderson, CEO of Port Tampa Bay, said in a statement. "Linea Peninsular enjoys a well-deserved reputation as the premiere ocean carrier between Mexico and the United States, having provided reliable and quality service in this trade for over 32 years. Mexico is already one of Port Tampa Bay's top trading partners, and we see significant potential to expand our containerized business with Mexico, including for such commodities as food and beverage products, consumer goods and construction and building materials."
Linea Peninsular will use the new $24 million post-Panamax gantry cranes recently assembled at PortTampa Bay, to load and unload cargo.
"We are very excited to add Port Tampa Bay to our rotation" Linea Peninsular CEO David Humphreys said in a statement. "We have wanted to do this for quite some time as the large consumer market in the Tampa Bay I-4 corridor market has become the primary distribution center hub for Florida."
