Port Manatee-based World Direct Shipping deploys third vessel Sarasota Herald-Tribune World Direct Shipping, a cargo carrier that imports fruits and vegetables, sugar, appliances and household products to the U.S. from Mexico, expanded its operations at Palmetto's Port Manatee this week by adding a third company-owned vessel to its fleet. The company, which launched at Port Manatee in 2014 with a single vessel on one weekly service, on Wednesday christened the M/V Queen B III, the latest addition to World Direct Shipping's fleet. The ship, which is 590 feet long, can carry as many 1,800 20-foot equivalents, almost three times the maximum capacity of either of the company's other ships, M/V Queen B and M/V Queen B II.