The port facts listed below are text versions of the infographics that appear in the main article.
Jacksonville
- The Port of Jacksonville is the top U.S. port handling trade with Puerto Rico.
- Disney uses the Port of Jacksonville to importing most of the merchandise headed to its central Florida theme parks.
- In 2015, the Port of Jacksonville imported 9,126 metric tons of rice, or more than 586 billion grains of rice.
Mobile
- The Port of Mobile supports 124,328 direct and indirect jobs.
- The port is Alabama's only deepwater port.
- o You can travel by boat from the Port of Mobile to the Great Lakes—1,500 miles—using only inland waterways.
Miami
- The Port of Miami contributes $28 billion annually to the local economy and supports more than 207,000 jobs in South Florida.
- The port serves more than 4.9 million cruise passengers annually.
- Annually, the port handles more than 1 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units, a common metric for cargo containers).
Tampa
- The port is Florida's top one in terms of cargo tonnage, handling nearly half of all the seaborne commerce passing through the Sunshine State.
- The port is among the nation's top 10 for cruise ships.
- The port is one of the nation's largest in land area.
Savannah
- The Port of Savannah generates $20.4 billion in income (or 5.3 percent of Georgia's total personal income).
- The Port of Savannah supports 369,193 full- and part-time jobs (or 8.4 percent of Georgia's total employment);
- Annually, the Port of Savannah generates $1.3 billion in state taxes and $1 billion in local taxes.
Brunswick
- The Port Brunswick is the nation's top port for new auto imports.
- More than 12 automakers use one of Brunswick's three deepwater terminals.
- The Port of Brunswick is the East Coast's second-largest grain facility.
New Orleans
- The port is at the mouth of the lower Mississippi River, the world's busiest waterway.
- Of the nation's grain, 60 percent of it moves on the lower Mississippi River.
- One-fifth of the nation's coal and petrochemicals travel on the lower Mississippi River.
Pascagoula
- The Port of Pascagoula's two harbors include a combination of public and private terminals handling more than 32 million tons of cargo through the channel annually.
- The port is Mississippi's largest and ranks in the top 20 nationally in foreign cargo volume.
- Operations associated with the port are responsible for 19,370 direct jobs, $902 million in personal income, $393 million in spending, $50 million in state tax revenue, and $27 million in tax revenues to Jackson County.
Everglades
- By revenue, Port Everglades is the number one seaport in Florida ($153 million in fiscal year 2015).
- Port Everglades is the top container port in Florida and the eleventh in the United States by volume, with more than 1 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units, a common metric for cargo containers) in fiscal year 2015.
- Port Everglades was the top refrigerated cargo port in Florida and seventh in the United States in fiscal year 2015.