Port authority
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In Canada and the United States a port authority (less commonly a port district ) is a governmental or quasi-governmental public authority for a special-purpose district usually formed by a legislative body (or bodies) to create and support economic development within that area. Port authorities are usually governed by boards or commissions, which are commonly appointed by governmental chief executives, often from different jurisdictions.[1] Minister of Transport selects one board member, the local chief executive one, and the rest of the board are at the recommendation of port users to the federal Minister. In Canada all port authorities have a federal or Crown charter called Letters Patent irrigation facilities. In Mexico the federal government created sixteen port administrations in 1994-1995 called Administración Portuaria Integral (API ) in Spanish, as result of the Ley de Puertos of 1993. These are organized as variable capital corporations (Sociedad Anónima de Capital Variable or S.A. de C.V. ), with the intent of creating more private investment in a state owned sector. Numerous Caribbean nations also have port authorities, including those of Aruba, British Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, St. Maarten, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.[2] autoridad and consorcio (authority and consortium).
Port Authorities and Districts The distinction between inland and being marine is occasionally open to discussion. No distinction is made here between river and Great Lakes ports.
Canada
Port Authorities With date of Letters Patent.
Atlantic
Belledune, 29 March 2000
Halifax , 1 March 1999Saint John, NB, 1 May 1999
Sept Îles, 1 May 1999
St. John's, NL, 1 May 1999
Great Lakes
Pacific
Fraser River[1] , 1 May 1999
Nanaimo, 1 July 1999
North Fraser, 1 July 1999
Port Alberni, 1 July 1999
Prince Rupert , 1 May 1999Vancouver , 1 March 1999
St. Lawrence Seaway
Other agencies
United States Charter date in parenthesis.
Atlantic
Bridgeport Port Authority, CT (1992)
Canaveral Port Authority, FL (1939)
Chesapeake Port Authority, MD and VA (1987)
Dade County Seaport Department, Miami, FL (1960)
Delaware River Port Authority , DE, NJ, and PA (1951)Diamond State Port Corporation/Port of Wilmington, DE (1994)
Eastport Port Authority, ME (1977)
Port Everglades, FL (1927)
Georgia Ports Authority (1945)Jacksonville Port Authority (1963)
Port of Miami
Maine Port Authority
Maryland Port Administration (1971)
Massachusetts Port Authority (1956)New Hampshire State Port Authority (1957)
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (1921)North Carolina State Ports Authority (1945)
Port of Palm Beach District (1915)Philadelphia Regional Port Authority , PA (1989)Port of Ponce, PR (1911)
Puerto Rico Ports Authority (1942)
South Carolina State Ports Authority (1942)
South Jersey Port Corporation, NJ (1968)
Virgin Islands Port Authority, VI (1969)
Virginia Port Authority, VA (1970)
Gulf of Mexico
Alabama State Port Authority , (2000)Port of Beaumont Navigation District (1949)
Brazos River Harbor Navigation District, Freeport,TX (1927)
Brownsville Navigation District (1925)
Calhoun County Navigation District, Port Lavaca/Point Comfort, TX (1953)
Port of Corpus Christi Authority (1926)
Port of Galveston (1825)Port of Houston Authority (1910)Jackson County Port Authority, Pascagoula, MS (1956)
Lake Charles Port Harbor & Terminal District, LA (1924)
Manatee County Port Authority, FL (1967)
Mississippi State Port Authority/Gulfport (1960)
Board of Commissioners of the New Orleans , LA (1896)Port of Pensacola, FL (1976)
Harbor & Terminal District Plaquemines Port, LA (1977)
Panama City Port Authority, FL (1979)
Port of Port Arthur Navigation District, TX (1963)
Port Isabel-San Benito Navigation District, TX (1928)
South Louisiana Port Commission , (1968)Harbor & Terminal District St. Bernard Port Harbor, LA (1981)
Tampa Port Authority , FL (1945)
Inland
Albany Port District Commission (1925)
Port Authority of Allegheny County , PA (1956)Greater Baton Rouge Port Commission, LA (1952)
Brown County Board of Harbor Commissioners, Green Bay, WI (1965)
Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority (1981)
Duluth Seaway Port Authority, MN (1929)
Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority (1962)
Illinois International Port District, Chicago (1955)
Indiana Port Commission (1961)Port of Kalama, WA (1921)
Port of Longview, WA (1922)
Lorain Port Authority, OH (1964)
Port of Milwaukee
Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, Buffalo (1967)
Orange County Navigation Port District, TX (1953)
Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority, NY
Port of Oswego Authority (1955)
City of Richmond Port Commission , VA (1982)Port of Sacramento, CA (1947)
Port of Stockton (1932)Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority (1955)Waukegan Port District (1955)
Pacific
Port of Anacortes[4] , WA (1926)
Anchorage Port Commission , AK (1946)Port of Astoria, OR (1910)
Port of Bellingham (1920)
Port of Coos Bay (1909)
Port of Everett[5] , WA (1917)
Port of Grays Harbor[6] (1911)
Port Authority of Guam (1975)
Humboldt Bay Harbor Recreation & Conservation District , CA (1970)Long Beach City Harbor Department , CA (1909)Port of Longview, Washington (1921)Los Angeles City Harbor Department , CA (1907)Port of Newport, OR (1964)
Port of Oakland , CA (1926)Port of Olympia (1922)
Oxnard Harbor District , Hueneme, CA (1937)Port of Port Angeles, WA (1923)
Port of Portland , OR (1891)Port of Redwood City (1937)
Port of Richmond, CA (1982)
Commonwealth Ports Authority of Saipan, MP (1981)
Port of San Diego (1962)San Francisco Port Commission (1969)Port of Seattle (1911)Port of Skamania County, WA (1960s)
Port of Tacoma (1918)
Port of Vancouver, WA (1912)
Mexico Listed from northwest to southeast. API is Administración Portuaria Integral .
Pacific
API de Ensenada [7]
API de Guaymas [8]
API de Topolobampo [9]
API de Mazatlán [10]
API de Puerto Vallarta [11]
API de Manzanillo [12]
API de Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacan [13]
API de Salina Cruz [14]
API de Puerto Madero (Puerto Chiapas) [15]
Gulf of Mexico
API de Altamira [16]
API de Tampico [17]
API de Túxpan [18]
API de Veracruz [19]
API de Coatzacoalcos [20]
API de Campeche [21]
API de Dos Bocas [22]
API de Progreso [23]
API de Quintana Roo [24]
Central America
Autoridad Marítima de Panamá [25]
Comisión Portuaria Nacional, Guatemala [26]
Dirección General de Puertos Empresa Nacional Portuaria, Honduras [27]
JAPDEVA - Atlantic Port Authority, Costa Rica [28]
Asia
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