Disney Cruise Line to sail from Port Everglades
Disney Cruise Line is coming to South Florida.
The family-focused cruise operator will begin sailing from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale for the first time in the fall of 2023.
The Broward County Commission approved a plan for Port Everglades Terminal 4 to be redesigned and opened, as the second home port for
Disney Cruise Line. The line’s original home port is at Port Canaveral.
“Disney is known for its remarkable creativity worldwide. I’m sure this new terminal will reflect the magical Disney experience for travelers. We are certainly very happy ... that Disney Cruise Line will be sailing from our Port Everglades,” Broward County Mayor Michael Udine said in a statement.
Disney is entering a 15-year partnership at Port Everglades. The cruise line will have one ship based in Fort Lauderdale year-round starting next fall. It will be joined by a second ship seasonally in 2025.
Broward County officials said the agreement with Disney will result in 1,111 local jobs, generating $31.6 million in wages and $12.3 million in state and local taxes, according to a study from Martin Associates, a maritime research group.
Architecture engineering firm Bermello, Ajamil customized. And in less than a week he managed to earn $100,000 to create
The Auto Firm.
The business, in which he has customized the cars of Marc Anthony, Luis Fonsi, Vin Diesel and Nick Jam, has led to friendships with athletes and celebrities. One of his most recent designs was printed on the new car of Dominican singer and dancer Yailin, girlfriend of Anuel AA.
FROM CARS TO VODKA
Those who called Vega “crazy” didn’t know when he decided to embark on the world of vodkas that he “had found the secret formula and wanted to share it.”
“It is a pure, organic, vegan, glutenfree and kosher formula,” said Vega, explaining that Avorza differs from other vodkas by its smooth taste.
“It goes down your throat as if it were water,” he said. “The secret is that it is distilled many times, the process is respected, instead of rushing it to obtain more quantity,” he said, recalling that he’d tasted the vodka for the first time on one of his trips to Europe.
When he first tasted the smooth vodka, he thought it was mixed with water. But he was convinced that the vodka was pure when a racer, the inventor of the formula, climbed on top of his car after drinking it.
“This can’t be, because that car is worth millions of dollars, it has to be a real vodka,” Vega told himself.
But it didn’t occur to him to buy the formula from the racer until he was ambushed and shot by a hooded man in his driveway,
“When I feel like I’m bleeding to death, that I can’t breathe, in those minutes that you have left, I say to myself, ‘Am I going to leave like this? What will happen to my family? There is money in the company, I have properties, life insurance, but is that going to support my children and grandchildren?’ “
In the hospital, while drinking juice, he remembered the vodka that he had tasted in Germany. He invited the car racer to come to Miami to talk business. He bought the formula from him and set out to import Avorza, which now bears the name of the brand he originally created to customize cars.
Vega, who started working at age 14 cleaning pools in Miami, is optimistic about the future of his vodka.
“If in the car business, in which there are so many workshops, I took mine to the level of making it one of the largest in the United States,“he said. “In the vodka business, in which there are so many brands with tradition, I don’t want to be better than them, but different.”
If you know a person whose story of personal and professional improvement could be reflected in this series of profiles from el Nuevo Herald, please contact smoreno@elnuevoherald.com or gguerra@miamiherald.com. & Partners Inc. will be in charge of design and consulting services for the interior and exterior improvements of the port’s Terminal 4 for Disney Cruise Line.
“Our seaport construction staff has been working closely with teams of ‘Imagineers’ and other creative groups to brainstorm designs and ideas to maximize guest flow and efficiency. I am excited to see the final product,” said Jonathan Daniels, Port Everglades chief executive, using Disney’s word for the people that design and build Disney theme parks and attractions.
Broward County officials also noted how the Disney terminal will contribute to the county’s growing tourism portfolio. With fast-growing Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport just a couple of miles from Port Everglades, it is an increasingly popular cruising destination.