- U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced this week the appointment of Port Tampa Bay/CEO President Paul Anderson to DOT’s new Advisory Committee on Human Trafficking.

- A Port Tampa Bay crew, all certified divers with backgrounds in engineering, surveying, damage assessment, and FEMA contracts, traveled to the Port of Panama City on Monday, October 29th to offer aid and assistance

- Port Tampa Bay set a new operating revenue record at $59.7 million for the Fiscal Year 2018, which ended September 30th

- On Saturday, September 22, 2018, Seacat Line delivered cold containers of fresh pineapples from Chestnut Hill Farms. The pineapples shipped from the Port of Moin, Costa Rica to Port Tampa Bay aboard the new vessel M/V Juice Express. Crews at Port Logistics Refrigerated Services unloaded the pineapples at their berth on Saturday.

- On Monday, September 17, 2018, Port Tampa Bay surpassed the million cruise passenger mark when 1,000,524 passengers came through the Port. This past weekend, thousands more passengers continued to enjoy the Tampa area as three more ships called at port.