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Article: Tug mates: busy south Florida port has plenty of work for its two tug operators.
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- Workboat
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- January 1, 2008
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Nestled along the Intracoastal Waterway on Florida's southeast coast, Port Everglades was once a quiet backwater. The Fort Lauderdale port, which is owned and operated by Broward County, has historically played third fiddle to Miami and Tampa.
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In recent years, however, Port Everglades has become one of the fastest growing ports in the U.S., keeping a fleet of shipdocking tugs busy around the clock.
Development of the port began in 1925 with the arrival of the first "imports"--35 lumberjacks from Vermont who cleared the mangrove forest across a thin sand ridge separating the shallow Bay Mabel from the Atlantic Ocean near ...