USCG Offloads 34,780 Pounds Of Cocaine In Port Everglades

Coast Guard offloads 34,780 pounds of cocaine in Port Everglades

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Forward (WMEC-911) offloaded approximately 34,780 pounds of cocaine Tuesday in Port Everglades worth an estimated $466 million wholesale seized in international waters in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

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The drugs were interdicted off the coasts of Mexico, Central and South America and represent 21 separate, suspected drug smuggling vessel interdictions by the U.S. Coast Guard:

  • The cutter Forward was responsible for eight cases...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/uscg-offloads-34780-pounds-of-cocaine-in-port-everglades/

Join us at Maritime Week Americas • Early Bird tickets available

We’re delighted to announce that Maritime Week Americas is returning to Fort Lauderdale this year, a stones’ throw from Port Everglades, one of the most important cruise, petroleum and container ports in the Americas.

MWA is a hugely popular week-long series of events created to bring together bunker suppliers, traders and buyers – and related maritime professionals – from all over the world.

This year, MWA 2019 comprises a high-level two-day conference, specialist training courses and workshops...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/01/31/join-us-at-maritime-week-americas–early-bird-tickets-available/

New cargo terminal at Port Everglades

BROWARD COUNTY, FL – Florida International Terminal, LLC. (FIT) is opening a new 32-acre containerized cargo terminal at Broward County’s Port Everglades with double the number of entry gates, and adding new scales, heavy equipment, technology and increased stacking capacity. FIT is already one of the largest cargo terminal operators at Port Everglades and is relocating to make way for the largest capital improvement project in the Port’s history.

In the past fiscal year (October 1, 2017 through...

http://container-news.com/new-cargo-terminal-port-everglades/