Port Manatee to Dedicate Berth 12

Port Manatee will commemorate the opening of Berth 12 with a dedication ceremony following the Manatee County Port Authority meeting Thursday Oct. 20. The ceremony will take place at Port Manatee’s Berth 12 at approximately 11:15 a.m. Members of the media should check in at 11 a.m. at the Access Control Center at the port’s North Gate for directions to the event’s designated parking area.

The Berth 12 dredging project – the largest new construction dredging project on Tampa Bay in years – designates the official opening of South Port the focus of Port Manatee’s $200 million decade-long expansion.