Panama City 



The Port of Panama City is on a 19.4-ha (48-acre) site on the northeast 

 side of St. Andrews Bay in Bay County. The channel maintained for access to 

 the Gulf is about 33 ft deep and 400 ft wide. Other means of access to the 

 port are the Intracoastal Waterway, the Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railroad, 

 Bay County Airport, and local highways. 



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 The covered cargo storage capacity in 1976 was 327,895 ft of covered 



storage, and a bulk petroleum storage capacity of 1,235,828 barrels. Ship 

 berthing facilities consisted of 1,600 ft of public deepwater wharves main- 

 tained at a depth of 32 ft, and 2,935 ft of privately operated deepwater 

 wharves. Estimates of annual throughput capacity for the Port of Panama City 

 are shown in Table 4. No estimates on liquid bulk were made for this port. 



Table 4. Average annual throughput capacity in short tons in 1960-78 for 

 the Port of Panama City (Florida Department of Transportation 1978a). 



Terminals and type of cargo Capacity 



Deep Draft Terminal 

 General cargo 



General cargo capacity at the barge terminal was 173,000 tons, and the 

 deep draft terminal capacity was 324,000 tons, well in excess of the 1976 

 cargo of about 228,000 tons. Dry bulk capacity was restricted by the lack of 

 silo storage. 



The Port of Panama City maintained a fairly constant level of waterborne 

 commerce in 1965-78. In 1960-70, Panama City moved a higher volume of 

 freight than Pensacola, but in the 1970' s the tonnage at Pensacola was high- 

 est. In 1975, Panama City's volume of waterborne commerce of 1,616,000 short 

 tons accounted for 2.0% of the tonnage of all Florida ports. A summary of the 

 percent increase in annual tonnage at Panama City since 1960 is shown in 

 Table 5. 



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