Port Everglades has received approval from the Broward County Commission for the Port Everglades International Logistics Center, which will be designed, constructed, financed, operated and maintained under a public-private partnership.

According to the port, warehouse facilities measuring approximately 240,000 square feet and a 45,000-square-foot office building will be constructed on 16.657 acres of port property. The whole facility will be designated as a Foreign Trade Zone.

“The design and concept of the new logistics centre is to provide shipping companies and international customers a full range of port-related services,” said Fred Rogacki, president and CEO of International Warehouse Services, a tenant at the port and the prime member of the team behind the new facility. “This will include 3PL warehousing services and government inspections, as well as refrigerated space for perishable cargo. There is no other port on the east coast that offers this type of service within one centralized location.”

The centre is expected to be completed by April 2019, allowing the port to proceed with the demolition of the existing obsolete FTZ facility and the construction of additional marine terminal yards, according to Port Everglades.