PALMETTO, Fla. – Roxana Santoyo has been promoted to director of business development for SeaPort Manatee and director of the International Trade Hub at SeaPort Manatee.
In her new dual position, assumed Dec. 29, Santoyo directs business development activities for the vibrant Southwest Florida seaport while leading the only international trade hub based at a Sunshine State port.
“For nearly a decade, Roxana has been a driving force behind the trade hub’s success as a facilitator of global commerce, including through overseas offices in Chile, Colombia and Spain,” said Carlos Buqueras, SeaPort Manatee’s executive director. “We look forward to her applying her extensive expertise to pursuing business opportunities for the seaport as a whole while continuing to advance the mission of the trade hub.”
Santoyo, who is Cuban-born and bilingual in English and Spanish, joined the trade hub in 2017 as international initiatives coordinator and was promoted to its manager in 2021. She earned a dual bachelor’s degree, with honors, in risk management and finance from the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee Campus and is a member of the executive advisory council of that school’s Muma College of Business.
Located in Southwest Florida, at the entrance to Tampa Bay, SeaPort Manatee is a dynamic global trade hub, serving as the vibrant ships-to-shelves gateway for burgeoning Southwest and Central Florida markets, with convenient rail and roadway links, including to the distribution-center-filled Tampa/Orlando Interstate 4 corridor. The closest U.S. deepwater seaport to the expanded Panama Canal, SeaPort Manatee offers 10 deep-draft berths, proficiently fulfilling diverse demands of container, liquid and dry bulk, breakbulk, heavylift, project and general cargo customers. The self-sustaining port generates nearly $7.3 billion in annual economic impacts while providing for more than 42,000 direct and indirect jobs – all without benefit of local property tax support.
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