The corridor's three gateways.

Florida’s biggest container box, the world’s busiest cruise port, and the only post-Panamax channel south of Norfolk.

Annual volume

1,115,058 TEUs (FY2025)

National ranking

#11 busiest U.S. container port (FY2025)

Distance from anchor

40 min south

PortMiami sits on Dodge Island in Biscayne Bay, forty minutes south of Pompano Beach. FY2024 closed at 1,089,443 TEUs — #1 in Florida and #11 nationally. Direct intermodal connection to the FEC Hialeah yard puts containers on inland rail without leaving the port footprint. The post-Panamax dredge plus the PortMiami Tunnel gave the port a deepwater channel and a dedicated cargo truck route bypassing downtown.

The corridor’s tri-port — containers fifteen minutes south, petroleum into the South Florida grid, and the I-595 connector straight onto the inland network.

Annual volume

1,167,552 TEUs (FY2025 record)

National ranking

#15 busiest U.S. container port (FY2025)

Distance from anchor

15 min south

Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale is fifteen minutes south of Pompano and the closer of the two seaports. FY2025 set a record at 1,167,552 TEUs. The port also moves South Florida’s petroleum imports and is a major cruise homeport. I-595 connects the cargo terminals directly to I-75 and the inland distribution network; Foreign Trade Zone #25 sits inside the port footprint.

The country’s #1 air freight gateway by total tonnage — and the dominant U.S. connection to Latin America by a wider margin than any other comparison in American logistics.

Annual volume

3.4 million tons (2025) — +13.2% YoY

National ranking

#1 U.S. airport for international freight, #3 for total freight (2025)

Distance from anchor

40 min south

Miami International Airport handled 3.5 million tons of cargo in 2025, up 13.6% year over year — the #1 U.S. airport for total freight and #3 globally. MIA moves more air freight to and from Latin America than every other U.S. airport combined. Forty minutes south of Pompano Beach; the cargo apron sits west of the passenger terminals. Perishables (cut flowers from Colombia and Ecuador, salmon from Chile), pharmaceutical cold chain, and electronics imports dominate the throughput.