Port Canaveral Transportation

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Port Canaveral is a large cruise and cargo port which at the Brevard County Florida. It is known to be the second busiest cruise port of the world. The cruises that regularly dock at the six cruise terminals of Canaveral port are Disney, Carnival, Royal Caribbean International, Holland America and the Norwegian Cruise line. The Canaveral port also has operations of the casino ships such as the Sun Cruz Casinos and Sterling Casinos.

As this is a first-rate deep water port, therefore it also has a high volume of cargo traffic. The cargo that is commonly shipped at the Canaveral port includes cement, petroleum and the aggregate. The Canaveral port also has conveyors and hoppers that help the products to load directly into the trucks. Moreover, the Canaveral port also has the facility of bulk cargo containers. The covered freight storage capacity present at the Canaveral port is 750,000 square feet. The exports that take place on the Canaveral port include fresh citrus and bulk frozen Richmond Virginia port citrus juice which is stored in extremely large freezer warehouses. Furthermore, it also exports cement and other building materials. The port gets lumber, salt which is used for water softening, automobiles, and steel sheet and plate. It transports items from one ship to another, which are meant for land, sea, air and space.

It has the direct shortest entry from the East Coast of Florida. It has the transit time of forty five minutes from the first sea buoy till the docking. It has an important foreign trade zone. It's foreign trade zone is among the largest general purpose foreign trade zone in the nation. It comprises of over five square miles. The port also has a very significant role in boosting the Brevard's economy.

Brevard's economy is revived by the Canaveral port by half a billion dollars each year. All the ground transport companies should be allowed to pick up from this port. This thing is very strictly implemented for a number of important reasons. One of the major reasons of this rule is that the transportation service provider has the proper permits and insurance. The Premier Exotic Limousine present at the Canaveral port has all the exotic permits and insurance which are required.

According to the January 2011 statistics, these are the following ships which home-port or make regular stops at this. These ships include Monarch of the Seas, Freedom Of The Seas, Carnival Sensation, Carnival Dream, Norwegian Sun, Disney Dream, Disney Magic, Carnival Pride and Norwegian Gem. The Disney Fantasy will be home ported, which will replace the Disney Magic.The Disney Magic will be moved to Galveston and New York.

The negative impact of Canaveral port is that a large amount of sand is built up from one to two miles north of port's jetties. It negatively affects the beaches, which are located ten to fifteen miles on the south of jetties. The federal government (the corps of engineers) has the responsibility to undo this adverse impact.

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