Port Everglades Deepening and Widening Project

Port Everglades Authorized to Deepen and Widen the port’s navigation channels. The project is currently in the preconstruction engineering and design phase, and can now proceed through the permitting and federal funding processes.

The main features of the project are to deepen the main navigational channels from 42 feet to 50 feet, and to deepen and widen the entrance channel and parts of the intracoastal waterway so that cargo ships can pass safely by docked cruise ships.

The project is anticipated to create an estimated 2,200 construction jobs and nearly 1,500 permanent direct jobs locally resulting from additional cargo capacity.

This is a bi-partisan effort to make port’s navigation channels safer, globally competitive and environmentally progressive. A key environmental component of the approved plan includes out planting 103,000 new nursery-raised corals in 18 acres of existing reef areas and creating roughly five acres of artificial reef by relocating approximately 11,500 corals.

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