{"id":2329,"date":"2018-04-20T09:07:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internationalhubportmanatee.com\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:23:58","slug":"port-manatee-considered-as-polands-gateway-to-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.internationalhubseaportmanatee.com\/es\/port-manatee-considered-as-polands-gateway-to-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Manatee considered as Poland’s gateway to Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PALMETTO, Florida \u2013 SeaPort Manatee is being looked at as a gateway linking Poland and all of Central and Eastern Europe with the entire Western Hemisphere following a visit Thursday [April 19] to the Florida Gulf Coast port by the president of the Polish-American Chamber of Commerce of Florida and the Americas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can establish a bridge,\u201d said Leszek Ladowski, president of the Miami-based Polish trade organization. \u201cIt\u2019s not just about the 21 million people who live in Florida. It\u2019s about all the connections in Latin America and throughout the Americas.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeaPort Manatee has a great location to be the gateway,\u201d Ladowski said. \u201cThe opportunity is there. How big it becomes is up to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ladowski, who lived in Latin America for 14 years, said Poland, as the leading free-market economy of the 12-country Central and Eastern Europe region, has been increasing its trade with the United States at an annual pace of more than 20 percent and is eager to pursue solid commercial links throughout the Americas.<\/p>\n

Vanessa Baugh, chairwoman of the Manatee County Port Authority, said she shares the enthusiasm, commenting, \u201cServing as a channel for commerce is at the heart of the mission of SeaPort Manatee, and we are encouraged by the potential the port holds as an important tie between Central and Eastern Europe and the Americas, benefitting interests throughout the world while boosting contributions to our region\u2019s socioeconomic wellbeing as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

SeaPort Manatee\u2019s executive director, Carlos Buqueras, said, \u201cSeaPort Manatee continues to attract the interest of leaders of commerce around the globe, with the International Trade Hub at SeaPort Manatee leading the way in realizing our vast potential to offer and capitalize upon mutually beneficial opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the past several months, SeaPort Manatee and its trade hub have also hosted high-level officials representing such nations as Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Japan, Mexico, Peru and Spain.<\/p>\n

Located \u201cWhere Tampa Bay Meets the Gulf of Mexico,\u201d SeaPort Manatee is the closest U.S. deepwater seaport to the expanded Panama Canal, with 10 40-foot-draft berths serving container, bulk, breakbulk, heavylift, project and general cargo customers. The port generates more than $2.3 billion in annual economic impact for the local community, while supporting more than 24,000 jobs, without levying ad-valorem taxes.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=\"2330\" img_size=\"large\" add_caption=\"yes\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text]PALMETTO, Florida \u2013 SeaSeaPort Manatee is being looked at as a gateway linking Poland and all of Central and Eastern Europe with the entire Western Hemisphere following a visit Thursday [April 19] to the Florida Gulf Coast port by the president of the Polish-American Chamber of Commerce of Florida and the Americas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can establish a bridge,\u201d said Leszek Ladowski, president of the Miami-based Polish trade organization. \u201cIt\u2019s not just about the 21 million people who live in Florida. It\u2019s about all the connections in Latin America and throughout the Americas.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeaSeaPort Manatee has a great location to be the gateway,\u201d Ladowski said. \u201cThe opportunity is there. How big it becomes is up to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ladowski, who lived in Latin America for 14 years, said Poland, as the leading free-market economy of the 12-country Central and Eastern Europe region, has been increasing its trade with the United States at an annual pace of more than 20 percent and is eager to pursue solid commercial links throughout the Americas.<\/p>\n

Vanessa Baugh, chairwoman of the Manatee County Port Authority, said she shares the enthusiasm, commenting, \u201cServing as a channel for commerce is at the heart of the mission of SeaSeaPort Manatee, and we are encouraged by the potential the port holds as an important tie between Central and Eastern Europe and the Americas, benefitting interests throughout the world while boosting contributions to our region\u2019s socioeconomic wellbeing as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

SeaSeaPort Manatee\u2019s executive director, Carlos Buqueras, said, \u201cSeaSeaPort Manatee continues to attract the interest of leaders of commerce around the globe, with the International Trade Hub at SeaSeaPort Manatee leading the way in realizing our vast potential to offer and capitalize upon mutually beneficial opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the past several months, SeaSeaPort Manatee and its trade hub have also hosted high-level officials representing such nations as Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Japan, Mexico, Peru and Spain.<\/p>\n

Located \u201cWhere Tampa Bay Meets the Gulf of Mexico,\u201d SeaSeaPort Manatee is the closest U.S. deepwater seaport to the expanded Panama Canal, with 10 40-foot-draft berths serving container, bulk, breakbulk, heavylift, project and general cargo customers. The port generates more than $2.3 billion in annual economic impact for the local community, while supporting more than 24,000 jobs, without levying ad-valorem taxes.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalhubseaportmanatee.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalhubseaportmanatee.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalhubseaportmanatee.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalhubseaportmanatee.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalhubseaportmanatee.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalhubseaportmanatee.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalhubseaportmanatee.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions\/2513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalhubseaportmanatee.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalhubseaportmanatee.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalhubseaportmanatee.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalhubseaportmanatee.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}