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Port Manatee looks to CSX facility for Growth …

Posted by Bob Gernert on September 20, 2007 at 8:59 am

Today’s Bradenton Herald has a front page Business section story regarding the proposed CSX intermodal terminal. It says in part …

Port Manatee officials are excited about a proposed CSX railroad terminal in Winter Haven that would improve the flow of container shipments throughout the state and to other parts of the country.

“It’s one more important tool that we have to market the port,” said Steve Tyndal, Port Manatee’s senior director of trade development and special projects. “If a shipper in Asia knows that a sophisticated intermodal facility like the one proposed for Winter Haven is only an hour away, that means we could more easily sell Port Manatee as a port of entry.”

The projected $100 million facility would off-load containers from trains for placement on trucks headed to distribution centers, said Richard Hood, assistant vice president of CSX Real Property. It will be located on 1,250 acres with two miles of rail frontage, according to Hood, who said it is the first development of its kind east of the Mississippi.

Read the complete story here.

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