Six months after extending its agreement with Port Manatee, Fla., through 2019, ocean carrier World Direct Shipping is adding a second weekly sailing between Veracruz, Mexico, and the Palmetto port.

To say that the growth of World Direct Shipping has been unconventional is an understatement as vast as the Gulf of Mexico itself. For one thing, the owners of the company, the Blazer family of ...

A cargo company based in the Tampa area will begin making regular stops in Pensacola. World Direct Shipping, which is based in Palmetto, plans to make weekly sailings between the Port of Pensacola and ...