Port Manatee has rebranded as SeaPort Manatee. The rechristening comes following celebration of all-time-high activity during the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2021, including a record 135,660 twenty-foot-equivalent units of containerized cargo, up 53.3 percent from fiscal 2020, and more than three-and-a-half times the container throughput in fiscal 2018.

Additionally, the $13.1 million project to more than double the port's dockside container yard to 23.5 acres is nearing completion as a centerpiece of a $74 million capital improvement plan, and a consulting team, in collaboration with a range of stakeholders, is advancing a blueprint for future development on thousands of acres both on and adjacent to the port's bayfront facilities.  The port generates more than $3.9 billion in annual economic impacts while providing for more than 27,000 direct and indirect jobs, all without benefit of local property tax support.