SeaPort Manatee appreciates drivers with free lunches, goody luggage, trucking summit
With free lunches, gift-filled goody luggage and a first-time trucking summit, SeaPort Manatee has celebrated its seventh annual Trucker Appreciation Day, honoring – and interacting with – most of the tons of {of professional} drivers who hold the provision chain flowing every day by means of the Florida Gulf Coast commerce gateway.
Culminating Nationwide Truck Driver Appreciation Week, SeaPort Manatee’s Friday [Sept. 16] observance started with an interactive discussion board in partnership with the Florida Division of Transportation, adopted by handing out of complimentary ready lunches and present luggage to drivers approaching the port’s most important entrance advanced.
“SeaPort Manatee is persistently grateful for the dedication of the freeway heroes who dedicatedly present an important hyperlink in safely, dependably transferring important items, particularly all through difficult occasions,” stated Carlos Buqueras, SeaPort Manatee’s govt director. “We’re honored to have this chance to indicate our thankfulness and to this yr increase the giveaways with a discussion board furnishing updates to drivers whereas gathering their valued enter.”
Trucker Appreciation Day sponsors included Ash Grove Cement Co., Carver Maritime Manatee, Federal Marine Terminals Inc., Intermodal Tank Transport (USA) Inc., Kinder Morgan Port Manatee Terminal LLC, LOGISTEC USA Inc., TransMontaigne Terminals LLC and World Direct Delivery.
Others donating giveaway objects – from calendars and koozies to caps and sun shades – included 75 Chrome Store, Drivers Well being Clinic, Worldwide Used Truck Middle of Tampa, Southport Truck Group, TA Journey Facilities of America and Truckers Towards Trafficking.
The donated objects – together with security orange T-shirts emblazoned with “SeaPort Manatee Appreciates Me!” – have been distributed in event-branded luggage by port workers members, joined by Amanda Tyner, Florida Division of Transportation District 1 freight and seaport coordinator.
“We loved having the chance to indicate our appreciation, with the SeaPort Manatee workers, for the drivers who hold the freight transferring,” stated Tyner, who represented FDOT on the trucking summit. “Thanks for permitting FDOT to be part of such a tremendous day.”
Positioned “The place Tampa Bay Meets the Gulf of Mexico,” SeaPort Manatee is a dynamic world commerce hub, serving as the colourful ships-to-shelves gateway for burgeoning Southwest and Central Florida markets. The closest U.S. deepwater seaport to the expanded Panama Canal, SeaPort Manatee presents 10 deep-draft berths, proficiently fulfilling numerous calls for of container, liquid and dry bulk, breakbulk, heavylift, undertaking and basic cargo prospects. The self-sustaining port generates greater than $5.1 billion in annual financial impacts whereas offering for greater than 37,000 direct and oblique jobs – all with out good thing about native property tax assist.
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SeaPort Manatee’s chief industrial officer, Charles Tillotson, left, and Amanda Tyner, Florida Division of Transportation District 1 freight and seaport coordinator, take a fast break from handing out goody luggage and lunches through the port’s Sept. 16 celebration of Trucker Appreciation Day.
