{"id":205130,"date":"2026-03-25T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205130\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:50:09","slug":"impacts-on-portmiami-of-iran-attacks-slow-to-assess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205130\/","title":{"rendered":"Impacts on PortMiami of Iran attacks slow to assess"},"content":{"rendered":"

\tWritten by Kelly Sanchez<\/a> on March 25, 2026<\/p>\n

\"www.miamitodaynews.com\"\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nearly one month after the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, South Florida has experienced minimal impacts on trade and operations have not been disrupted, according to PortMiami. The chief strategy officer of a third-party logistics company says otherwise.<\/p>\n

The conflict began Feb. 28, when Israel and the U.S. targeted multiple sites and cities across Iran in a coordinated operation that included strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. These attacks have contributed to rising gas and oil prices, meaning prices for transport fuels have also been affected. In addition, industries tied to petrochemicals, such as plastics and fertilizers, are being impacted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s actually really having some repercussions on trade,\u201d said Gary Goldfarb, the chief strategy officer of Interport Logistics. \u201cCargo ships are rerouting Far East cargo, not only the Gulf, you know, Arabian Gulf or the Strait of Hormuz, it\u2019s everywhere\u2026 Trade has to avoid that whole area, but also, I just heard, like half an hour ago, some of the steamship companies are having a difficult time getting bunker fuel for their vessels to come into the United States. Once they\u2019re here, they can get it, but to come here, they\u2019re not getting fuel; it\u2019s going to make it really complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Goldfarb added that the delays and the increased costs that result from them are \u201cvery disruptive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, the rerouting of ships causes delays, so if you were planning on having something here for April and now it\u2019s coming late April, it may be a problem, right?\u201d he said. \u201cThe airlines are full because since cargo isn\u2019t moving as predictable anymore \u2013 ocean freight is very predictable, so if you look at ocean freight, it\u2019s very predictable\u2026 they can almost go out an entire year and hit it with about 95% accuracy until something like this happens, and then everything gets fractured. So delays on delivery, delays on arrivals, and then airlines, cargo airlines, start to pick up the slack, which is what\u2019s happening now, but in picking up the slack, it also raises the costs, so it\u2019s very disruptive. That\u2019s not an opinion as to whether it\u2019s necessary or not, but it\u2019s very disruptive.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Interport Logistics team announced in an email to its partners that general rate increases are expected to take place starting next month. The email says that these adjustments are being driven by rising fuel costs, geopolitical developments affecting vessel routing and transit times along with current market conditions and carrier capacity management.<\/p>\n

Additionally, shippers may begin to see fuel-related surcharges added to freight quotations, rate adjustments on existing bookings depending on carrier policies, increased volatility in freight pricing across global trade lanes, and potential routing adjustments if carriers modify services in response to regional risks, the announcement said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we need to all be patient in letting this blow over, and yes, we are going to have missed shipments,\u201d Mr. Goldfarb said. \u201cWe are going to have cargo that didn\u2019t show up at PortMiami. PortMiami\u2019s budget for April may not be met because the ships didn\u2019t show up\u2026 It\u2019s a temporary necessity, but we\u2019re going to have difficulty the next five, 10 days.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, PortMiami Director and CEO Hydi Webb said the port has \u201cnot felt much of an impact with that trade pattern\u201d at this point and no services have been canceled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been no disruption to our operations because of what\u2019s going on, and we do have one service that did change its route due to not being able to go through the Strait,\u201d she said. \u201cSo instead of going to the Suez Canal, it\u2019s being rerouted through the Cape of Good Hope around Africa, but the service is still coming, and we, fortunately, haven\u2019t seen a large impact as of yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that Miami\u2019s diversified trade pattern has helped cushion the blow, but whether the situation worsens over time \u201cremains to be seen for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBy all means we are not immune to any geopolitical situation,\u201d Ms. Webb said, \u201cbut we can help weather the storm somewhat a little bit better with [a] diversified trade pattern.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Goldfarb anticipates global shipping and trading conditions will improve with time.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce this is over, and I think one or two more weeks of this, and then this is over \u2013 for South Florida, trade with the Middle East is going to explode,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are the trading partner for a lot of companies in Dubai and the UAE and in Doha and Qatar and the different places. And then once the water is calm, we\u2019re going to be pivotal. [The] South Florida logistics community is going to be pivotal in pretty much all the new trade that\u2019s going to come because of peace and because of open markets, but, yeah, it\u2019s going to get worse before it gets better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Written by Kelly Sanchez on March 25, 2026 Advertisement Nearly one month after the United States and Israel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-205130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}