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PortMiami reopened to cruise ship traffic on Sunday afternoon after salvage crews surfaced a 32-foot-boat that sank after an early morning collision with the Fisher Island Ferry left one man dead ...
The Port of Miami, styled as PortMiami and formally known as the Dante B. Fascell Port of Miami, is a major seaport located in Biscayne Bay at the mouth of the Miami River in Miami, Florida. It is the largest passenger port in the world and one of the largest cargo ports in the United States.
The Coast Guard authorized PortMiami to reopen to marine traffic Sunday after it was closed following a collision between two vessels.
The three ships were scheduled to leave PortMiami between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., according to online schedules, but passengers were left in holding patterns by text alerts from cruise companies.
The Port of Miami is located on, what was, Dodge, Lummus and Sam Islands, and has berths for both cruise and cargo ships. The original and much smaller Dodge Island was created during the dredging of Government Cut in the early 1900s. [ 1 ]
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Government Cut is a manmade shipping channel between Miami Beach and Fisher Island, which allows better access to the Port of Miami in Miami, Florida. Before the cut was established, a single peninsula of dry land stretched from what is now Miami Beach to what is now Fisher Island, and boats destined for the port at the mouth of the Miami River ...