The Port of Palm Beach is located in

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, in

Palm Beach County Palm Beach County is a county located in the southeastern part of Florida and lies directly north of Broward County and Miami-Dade County. The county had a population of 1,492,191 as of the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous county ...

. The port is an independent taxing district, with a five-member board of commissioners elected at large by voters within the district. The port district covers a land area of or approximately fifty percent of the Palm Beach County area. The port is administered by an Executive Director and professional staff of 59 full-time employees.

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The Port of Palm Beach is located north of

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and south of

Port Canaveral Port Canaveral is a cruise, cargo, and naval port in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It is one of the busiest cruise ports in the world with 4.5 million cruise passengers passing through during 2016. Over 5.4 million tonnes of bulk car ...

. The ship channel and 1,100-by-

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are in Lake Worth, and connect to the

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through the

Lake Worth Inlet The Palm Beach Inlet, also known as the Lake Worth Inlet is an artificial cut through a barrier island connecting the northern part of the Lake Worth Lagoon in Palm Beach County, Florida with the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by the town of Palm ...

. The nominal depth at mean low water of the channel and turning basin is . The Port has three slips, four marginal

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, and two roll-on/roll-off ramps, and a cruise terminal. The Port of Palm Beach is the fourth-busiest

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port in Florida and the twentyfifth-busiest in the

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. In addition to intermodal capacity, the Port is a major nodal point for the shipment of

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, utility fuels, water,

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and breakbulk items. With the exception of the spiced rum brand, all Cruzan Rum is shipped from St. Croix to the Port of Palm Beach to be bottled. In

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2019 (October, 2018 through September, 2019), the Port of Palm Beach served 1,273 cargo ships carrying more than 1.2 million short tons in approximately 280,000 TEUs, more than 2.3 million short tons of total cargo tonnage, and almost 450,000 cruise passengers. In 2010,

Celebration Cruise Line Celebration Cruise Line was a small cruise line that operated two-day voyages out of Port of Palm Beach to Grand Bahama Island. The company was founded in late 2008, and began operations on March 9, 2009. The company moved the ship's operations ...

opened a 2-day cruise, every other day, to the

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from the Port of Palm Beach using the nearly new passenger terminal.

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Port of Palm Beach Expanded View of the Channel and the Harbor.png, Map of the Channel and Harbor of Port of Palm Beach Port of Palm Beach Slip 2.jpg, A view of slip 3 of The Port of Palm Beach Port_of_palm_beach_harbour.jpeg, Port of Palm Beach

Lake Worth inlet The Palm Beach Inlet, also known as the Lake Worth Inlet is an artificial cut through a barrier island connecting the northern part of the Lake Worth Lagoon in Palm Beach County, Florida with the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by the town of Palm ...

to harbor from

References

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''portofpalmbeach.com''. Retrieved December 23, 2005. Transportation buildings and structures in Palm Beach County, Florida Palm Beach, Port of {{PalmBeachCountyFL-geo-stub

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