The Port of Tampa Bay commissioners have approved a budget of $14.5 million for the construction of a second berth especially for breakbulk and bulk operations at Port Redwing, a 128acre site which is south of Tampa near Interstate 75 and a CSX Transportation track.
The board also allowed stevedore and terminal operating company Gulf Coast Bulk Equipment to reassign its lease to Logistec Gulf Coast, for use of approximately five acres at Port Redwing.
The lease runs until 2021. GLF has been the low bidder on the Berth construction project, which includes a 1,000ft long steel bulkhead, dredging, and a new access road to the dock, as well as pilings to support a concrete slab used by heavylift cranes.
The port’s master plan calls for Port Redwing to become an industrial cluster of manufacturing and distribution facility for companies involved in businesses such as methanol and ethanol production, fertilizers, steel manufacturing, offshore supply, and biomass production and other project cargoes. Last April, Tampa Tank and Florida Structural Steel broke ground on an $18 million plant expansion at Port Redwing.
