PORT AND HARBOR FACILITIES PIERS, WHARVES, AND DOCKS There are 50 piers and wharves at Tampa which have a total usable berthing space of 24,367 linear feet. Eighteen of this number, with a total berthing space of 11,525 linear feet, have depths of 30 feet alongside at mean low water; 14 have 27-foot water depths for a total berthing space of 7,886 linear feet; 17 have depths of less than 27 feet alongside on a total frontage of 3,479 linear feet, and the Tampa Shipbuilding Co. has 1 pier with a depth of 40 feet along its 1,477 linear feet of berthing space. The city of Tampa owns four piers and wharves with a total berthing space of 2,594 linear feet, 2,544 feet of which have depths alongside of 30 feet, and one wharf is equipped with a transit shed having a floor area of 56,018 square feet. While the railroads at Tampa operate five piers and wharves they own but three. These have 30-foot depths alongside for 3,440 linear feet, and one is provided with a transit shed with 30,400 square feet of floor area. Steampship companies operate four wharves, two of which have a total berthing space of 1,251 linear feet and 27-foot water depths, and have transit shed areas aggregating 70,660 square feet, while another, with 30 feet of water alongside and 830 linear feet of berthing space, has a transit shed of 64,000 square feet in area. Eight other piers and wharves used for various purposes, with a total berthing space of 2,841 linear feet, have an aggregate transit shed area of 159,701 square feet, making a total transit shed area of 380,779 square feet at Tampa. The principal purposes for which the several wharves and piers at Tampa are being used, and the respective berthing spaces devoted to such uses, are as follows: Coastwise, intercoastal, and foreign freight, six facilities with a total berthing space of 4,166 linear feet; general merchandise, three, 986 linear feet; shipbuilding and repair, three, 1,682 linear feet; phosphate loading, three, 1,990 feet; sand and gravel, four, 1,061 feet; oil handling and bunkering, fifteen, 5,893 feet; fish handling, one, 800 feet; coal handling and bunkering, one, 1,365 feet; lumber handling, two, 2,808 feet; freight and passenger service, one, 781 feet; fruit handling, one, 600 feet; sugar and feed, one, 228 feet; two for mooring small vessels, 350 linear feet; two owned and operated by the United States Engineer Department, 441 feet, and three with 997 linear feet of berthing space, are unused at the present time. Detailed information regarding the piers and wharves is given in the following table: |