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headquarter relocation to South Florida.
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Global Logistics
Port Everglades and PortMiami are some of the busiest ports in the
country. In fact, Port Miami was recently ranked the 10th busiest port
in the U.S.103 Port Everglades sees similar volumes of cargo as
PortMiami, with even slightly higher volumes of Twenty-foot
Equivalent Units (TEU) in 2016, 2017 and 2018. In 2019, Port
Everglades was named the 12th busiest port in the country.104
Both ports are able to accommodate large ships with deep water berths
and offer a nexus of intermodal options once containers arrive by ship.
PortMiami and Port Everglades are able to reach 70% of the U.S.
population within 4 days via the Florida East Coast on dock intermodal
rail.105 Port Everglades in Broward County serves 100% of the
petroleum product needs of Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and
Martin counties with a distribution area that incorporates eight
additional counties.106
Miami International Airport (MIA) and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood
International Airport (FLL) are major assets for the global logistics
industry. MIA sees millions of tons of cargo pass through its grounds
annually. While FLL sees significantly less air cargo than MIA, FLL has
seen sizeable growth with a 19.5% increase in the volume of air freight
from 2020 to 2021. MIA also saw tremendous growth from 2020 to 2021
with an approximately 18% increase.
With major facilities to support logistics, Port Everglades and FLL
Airport located in Broward County and Port Miami and MIA Airport
located in Miami-Dade County, the jobs associated with logistics are
dominant in these counties. There are few jobs related to logistics in
Monroe County. Many of the jobs within the global logistics industry
pay well with average annual wages of more than $45,000.
Warehousing and storage jobs have seen tremendous growth with an
increase of 9.8% in Broward County and nearly new 2,000 jobs and an
increase of 37.8% in Miami-Dade County and nearly 11,000 new jobs in
the region. There is a significant difference in the average annual ages
recorded between the two counties.
With major facilities to support logistics, Port Everglades and FLL
Airport located in Broward County and Port Miami and MIA Airport
located in Miami-Dade County, the jobs associated with logistics are
dominant in these counties. There are few jobs related to logistics in
Monroe County. Many of the jobs within the global logistics industry
pay well with average annual wages of more than $45,000.
Warehousing and storage jobs have seen tremendous growth with an
increase of 9.8% in Broward County and nearly new 2,000 jobs and an
increase of 37.8% in Miami-Dade County and nearly 11,000 new jobs in
this area. Total cargo volume at Port Everglades was 24.3 million tons
and 11.1 million tons at the Port of Miami in 2021.
Courtesy of Port Everglades
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Life Sciences & Healthcare
Life Sciences
The life sciences industry includes organizations that perform research,
development and manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, biotechnologybased food and medicines, medical devices, biomedical technologies,
nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, food processing as well as other
products that improve health. South Florida is home to approximately
1,500 bioscience businesses and institutions that generate over $4
billion in sales, employing nearly 13,000 life sciences workers in South
Florida.107 The region possesses five universities that offer life science
master’s degrees and four universities that offer life science doctorates.
Sciences South Florida is a collaborative of the region’s academic
institutions, research parks and economic development organizations
with the goal of both public and private investment opportunities.
Additionally, the collaborative aids with the sharing of specialized
equipment and provides a forum for guiding biotech workforce
development. The region also benefits from membership in BioFlorida,
the voice of Florida’s life sciences industry as well as the Florida
Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research, which
cultivates technology transfer at Florida’s public universities.
The region possesses several other biotech incubators, including the
Center for Collaborative Research at Nova Southeastern University at
Davie which features wet and dry laboratory space as well as access to
specialized core facilities related to genomics, flow cytometry, cell
therapy and imaging. Converge Miami, a partnership between
Wexford Science and Technology and the University of Miami offers
an urban research campus with lab space, office and coworking space
in the heart of the Miami Health District. The facilities are important
infrastructure for supporting the growth and development of life
science-based companies.
The Life Sciences industry has seen both high rates of growth as well
as areas of job loss. The loss of 1,091 jobs in electromedical and
electrotherapeutic apparatus manufacturing in Miami-Dade County is
significant. However, many other areas of manufacturing have seen
sizeable increases. There has been a nearly 72% increase in in-vitro
diagnostic substance manufacturing in Broward County as well as a
nearly 30% increase in the jobs pertaining to R&D in Nanotechnology
in Miami-Dade County.
Courtesy of Life Sciences South Florida
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Manufacturing jobs within the life sciences represent advanced
manufacturing employment opportunities requiring highly
specialized skills and higher rates of pay than traditional
manufacturing.
Healthcare
Broward County's healthcare industry cluster is comprised of both the
healthcare and the biosciences industries. Careers in this industry
sector include pharmaceutical preparation manufacturing, surgical
and medical instrument manufacturing, physicians, dentists,
outpatient care centers operations, home health aides and more.