{"id":214238,"date":"2026-04-01T08:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214238\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:10:26","slug":"portmiami-records-a-rapid-rise-in-perishables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214238\/","title":{"rendered":"PortMiami records a rapid rise in perishables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tWritten by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/author\/kelly-sanchez\/\" title=\"Posts by Kelly Sanchez\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Sanchez<\/a> on April 1, 2026<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/subscribe\/\" title=\"www.miamitodaynews.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Subscription_skyscrapper_Green.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"www.miamitodaynews.com\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/portmiami-1.jpg\" alt=\"PortMiami records a rapid rise in perishables\" class=\"postimage\" width=\"483\" height=\"300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>With record passenger totals and a diverse trade pattern, PortMiami welcomed over 8 million cruise passengers and more than a million 20-foot freight equivalent units in fiscal year 2025.<\/p>\n<p>It welcomed 8,564,225 cruise passengers \u2013 up from 8,233,056 the previous fiscal year \u2013 marking a 4.02% increase and the highest annual passenger count in the seaport\u2019s history. It also recorded 1,115,058 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) \u2013 up from 1,089,443 the previous fiscal year \u2013 representing a 2.35% growth and 11 consecutive years exceeding one million TEUs.<\/p>\n<p>The major seaport trades with over 140 nations, with partners in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa and Oceania. The market share by region is 48% with Latin America, 31% with Asia, 20% with Europe and the Mediterranean, and 1% with Africa and Oceania. In all, 54% of PortMiami\u2019s trade is imports and 46% is exports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Miami, we\u2019re actually very lucky that we have a very diversified trade pattern,\u201d PortMiami Director and CEO Hydi Webb said. \u201cA lot of ports, particularly out on the West Coast, focus on one region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Webb added that the \u201cdiversified trade pattern really helps balance us out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, she said, the biggest trading commodity is fruits and vegetables, with an increase in perishables from Latin America and the Caribbean this past year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur number one trading commodity actually is fruits and vegetables,\u201d Ms. Webb said. \u201cAnd we have seen, talking about trends, a really, really large increase of perishables from Latin America and the Caribbean this past year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur perishables are really on the rise,\u201d she said, \u201cwhich is exciting, followed by apparels and textiles, which is our number two commodity, and then different types of machinery as our third largest commodity. But it\u2019s important to stress here in Miami how we have this balanced trade and our diversified trade pattern.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Written by Kelly Sanchez on April 1, 2026 Advertisement With record passenger totals and a diverse trade pattern,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-214238","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\/214238","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=214238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}