Editing Port of Pensacola

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The '''Port of Pensacola''' is an operational [[Deep Water City|deep-water]] port located on [[Pensacola Bay]]. With origins dating back to [[1743]], it is now one of the [[City of Pensacola]]'s [[City of Pensacola Enterprise Operations|Enterprise Operations]], having been incorporated in [[1943]] as the '''Municipal Port Authority'''.

The present-day Port of Pensacola occupies approximately 50 acres at the southern terminus of [[Barracks Street]] in [[downtown Pensacola]], on the site of the former [[Commendencia Street Wharf|Commendencia Street]] and [[Tarragona Street Wharf|Tarragona Street]] wharves. The Port has eight berths, 265,000 square feet of warehouse space, and on-dock rail service.

==History==
The first recorded export of commercial cargo from Pensacola, a shipment of pine and pitch products, took place in [[1743]]. Pensacola's first private commercial dock was built in [[1784]]. 

[[Image:1940waterfront.PNG|thumb|right|This 1940 aerial view of Pensacola's waterfront illustrates how Pensacola's port facilities looked in the first half of the 20th century, with [[Commendencia Street Wharf|Commendencia Street]], [[Tarragona Street Wharf|Tarragona Street]] and [[Muscogee Wharf|Muscogee]] wharves intact.]]
In the early 1940s, the [[Pensacola Exchange Club]] hosted a forum called the "[[Civic Roundtable]]," where representatives from [[Rotary]], [[Lions Club]], [[Kiwanis]], the [[Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce|Chamber]], the [[Jaycees]] and others would meet to discuss business issues, among them the port, which was enjoying a [[World War II|wartime]] resurgence. The group pressed State Representative [[Dave Thomas]] to introduce a bill in the Florida legislature creating the Municipal Port Authority in the spring term of [[1943]]. Its members were initially appointed by state senator and included [[J. D. Johnson]], [[Henry Hilton-Green]], [[Calvin L. Todd]], [[William S. Rosasco]], [[W. V. Fauria]], [[Morris Levy]], [[J. H. McCormack]], [[J. W. Smith, Jr.]], [[Charles W. Smith]], [[J. H. Allen]] and [[R. H. Turner, Jr.]] (Later members would be appointed by the [[Pensacola City Council]], which also approved annual funding to the Port Authority, as it had no taxing authority of its own.) The group first convened on [[July 7]], 1943 in Council's chambers.

==Exports by year==
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|-
! Year !! Tonnage !! Values
|-
| [[1886]] || 280,182 || $2,184,037
|-
| [[1887]] || 263,936 || 
|-
| [[1888]] || 315,614 || 
|-
| [[1889]] || 387,540 || 
|-
| [[1890]] || 420,076 || $3,451,735
|-
| [[1891]] || 374,763 || 
|-
| [[1892]] || 374,763 || 
|-
| [[1893]] || 408,169 || 
|-
| [[1894]] || 395,394 || 
|-
| [[1895]] || 352,607 || $3,718,127
|-
| [[1896]] || 380,091 || $6,615,635
|-
| [[1897]] || 456,222 || $8,772,002
|-
| [[1898]] || 399,938 || $9,072,950
|-
| [[1899]] || 595,461 || 
|-
| [[1900]] || 595,229 || $14,413,522
|-
| [[1912]] || 1,271,979 || $23,866,866
|-
| [[1913]] || 1,475,051 || 
|-
| [[1914]] || 1,164,502 || 
|-
| [[1915]] || 871,166 || 
|-
| [[1916]] || 810,544 || 
|}

==External links & references==
*[http://www.portofpensacola.com/ www.portofpensacola.com]
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*John Appleyard. ''Four Centuries: A Saga of Pensacola Port in Action''. 1981.
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[[Category:Port of Pensacola|Port of Pensacola]]
[[Category:City of Pensacola Enterprise Operations]]