Port Everglades Celebrates 100th Voyage of SeaFreight's Stadt Rendsburg

JOC Staff |
PORT EVERGLADES, FL (February 5, 2010) – Today, Port Everglades and SeaFreight Line celebrated the 100th voyage of the MV Stadt Rendsburg from the South Florida seaport.

Built in 2004, the 1,100-TEU containerized cargo vessel has spent its entire working career homeported at Port Everglades and sailing every three weeks to Jamaica, Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, Venezuela, Panama, Trinidad and Jacksonville, FL. A TEU (20-foot equivalent units) is the standard unit of measurement for cargo containers.

“We congratulate SeaFreight on the MV Stadt Rendsburg’s 100th voyage to Port Everglades and a successful business model that generated nearly 75,000 TEUs at Port Everglades this past year,” said Port Director Phil Allen.

‘We are very pleased to celebrate this milestone. Having vessels with the reliability of the Stadt Rendsburg and operating with the efficiency of Port Everglades has contributed significantly in making us one of the most dependable carriers in the trade” said David Ross, Executive Vice President of SeaFreight Line.

Over the past 18 years, SeaFreight Line has evolved to currently operate six 1,100-TEU and three 500-TEU vessels between Florida, the Caribbean, South & Central America trades with weekly and bi-weekly fixed-day of the week services.

Port Everglades is one of the nation’s leading container ports and a trade gateway to Latin America and Caribbean. Port Everglades has direct access to the interstate highway system, is within two miles of the FEC rail hub and is just one mile from the Atlantic Shipping Lanes. Ongoing capital improvements and expansion ensure that Port Everglades will have the ability to handle future growth in container traffic. A world-class cargo handling facility, Port Everglades serves as an ideal point of entry for products shipped around the world.

More information about Broward County’s Port Everglades is available on the Internet at http://www.porteverglades.net or by calling toll-free in the United States 1-800-421-0188 or emailing PortEvergladesCargo@broward.org .