It’s a Friday afternoon at Port Everglades and dockworkers are busy off-loading containers from a huge CCNI cargo ship that has just arrived from South America. Trucks are lined up to deliver and pick up freight. Cruise passengers are toasting on the pool deck of the Regent Seven Seas Navigator before departing for a week-long tour of the Caribbean and Mexico.
The hustle and bustle is palpable, as the growing Broward port leaps ahead to rank as the largest container cargo port in Florida in 2007, and — it expects — become the No. 1 cruise port in the world in 2011.
‘We have basically opened our eyes and said `Why not be the biggest and the best?’ ” said Port Director Phillip C. Allen.
Port Everglades is coming off one of the most successful years in its history and has big plans, despite facing challenges on economic and environmental fronts.
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