Welcome to Port Canaveral
Florida's Premier Gateway for Global Commerce

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Central Florida’s Growing Cargo Hub

Port Canaveral can help deliver your cargo to market faster and easier. We’re leveraging our location, growth potential, expertise and resources to expand our world-class cargo operations.  With recent and upcoming major investments in infrastructure projects the capabilities and efficiencies at our 11 deep-water berths just keep getting better.
 

Fast Transit and Easy Navigation

Port Canaveral is an economical and convenient ocean gateway into Florida and beyond. Located directly on the main shipping lines along the East Coast of Florida, its deep draft main channel and unencumbered transit offers carriers highly efficient routing and reduced vessel costs.  The Port’s man-made harbor offers direct access to the Atlantic Ocean and a transit time from buoy to dock of less than an hour.

Cargo operation at Port Canaveral takes advantage of the efficient transportation links within our region keeping all major Florida markets within reach in just 4 hours or less drive time.  Our unique uncongested intermodal connections to highways, rail and air further reduce distribution time and costs. Nonstop direct highway access puts Orlando less than one hour from Port Canaveral and expands the reach to 81 million consumers. 

Superior Facilities and Experience

Port Canaveral’s cargo teams have the experience, facilities, equipment and efficiency to handle a variety of cargoes including containers, breakbulk, roll-on/roll-off (RO/RO), project and bulk commodities.

Motivated and Flexible to Grow Your Cargo Business  

Our goal is to make it easy to take full advantage of our strategically located facilities to meet the high demands of Florida’s fast-pace markets. Whether you are seeking space to grow your terminal facilities, launch a new service or capture more market share, doing business with Port Canaveral is designed to be simple and effective with a core focus on customer service. 

Our pro-business staff can assist in structuring public-private partnership agreements, improving operational efficiencies, environmental and regulatory permitting, market development, Foreign Trade Zone involvement and economic development incentives.

Contact our Business Development representatives to learn more at cpa.cargo@portcanaveral.com
 

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