Boating, Fishing, and Travel Information for Port Everglades, ICWW, FL

Port Everglades is a deepwater port on the east coast of Florida, 301 miles south of Jacksonville and 948 miles from New York. Many of the world’s large passenger vessels call at this major cruise port. Yachting and small-craft facilities are centered at Fort Lauderdale close northward of the port. The Fort Lauderdale Coast Guard Station is on the east side of the Intracoastal Waterway southeast of the turning basin.

A Federal project provides for a 500-foot-wide entrance channel 45 feet deep converging at the jetties to a 450-foot-wide channel 42 feet deep leading to a turning basin 42 feet deep at the main port facilities with north and south extensions 31 feet deep. From the turning basin southward, the Intracoastal Waterway leading to the Southport terminal has been dredged for a Port Everglades sponsored project width of 500 feet and project depth of 42 feet. Immediately north of the Southport terminal lies a turning notch on the west side of Intracoastal Waterway 850 feet by 750 feet, 42 feet project depth and marked by 7 fingered dolphins to the north and three articulated yellow buoys to the west. The federal maintenance plan includes the Intracoastal Waterway to Southport and the turning notch. Although not a part of the Federal project, the Port Everglades Department of Broward County has dredged the south extension of the turning basin to a depth of 38 feet and will maintain it at that depth.