Port Everglades

In a court filing this week, the Army Corps project manager said the work had damaged nearby endangered staghorn coral, meeting or exceeding what was allowed under the permit.

The federal lawsuit filed this week in Fort Lauderdale asks a judge to halt work until the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers considers new information about coral and queen conchs in assessing potential damage from the project and ongoing dredging to maintain it.

The project to provide a steady supply of sand to eroding beaches has created plumes of sediment near one of the largest remaining stands of endangered staghorn coral and threatened queen conchs, while noisy excavators drown out waves along the popular beach next to Port Everglades.

In a letter last month, Army Corps officials withdrew a request for a state permit for the port's massive channel widening project.

Scientists warn that a proposed expansion of Port Everglades could cause unprecedented damage to corals in the U.S., including some of the only remaining endangered staghorn corals that survived a record-breaking heat wave.

The study to determine what impact a planned port dredge will have on nearby coral confirmed millions of coral, including one of the largest stands of wild staghorn coral left on the reef.

The cocaine and marijuana, seized in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea including off the coast of Venezuela, had a street value of nearly half a billion dollars. It was the largest single offloading of drugs in Coast Guard history.

The on-again, off-again tariff policy by the Trump administration has hurt the business outlook among companies using Port Everglades. They aren't pessimistic, though. More wait-and-see.

Joe Morris took over the role in July after 25 years in the port industry. Most recently he was the director of the Massachusetts Port Authority.

The temporary end to the strike came after the union and the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents ports and shipping companies, reached a tentative agreement on wages, the union and ports said in a joint statement.

Dockworkers in South Florida have joined a nationwide strike by the International Longshoremen Association — the first one in 50 years. More than 200 workers in Fort Lauderdale camped outside the entrance of Port Everglades, saying they're in it for the long haul.

A strike by longshoremen could be "scary" if it stretches more than a few days, said one of PortMiami's biggest container customers.