FORT LAUDERDALE — A Fort Lauderdale company is still awaiting government approval to run a ferry between Port Everglades and Cuba.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that Havana Ferry Partners applied for the license nearly two years ago.
The company is one of at least four interested in running ferries to Cuba through travel licenses allowed as exemptions to the embargo.
A U.S. Treasury Department official told the newspaper in an e-mail the office cannot comment on specific licenses.
Absent the approval, Havana Ferry is pushing for a one-time permission to carry passengers to Cuba in March for Pope Benedict XVI's scheduled visit.
Broward County leaders have backed requests for ferries, which traveled frequently between Havana and Florida before the communist revolution.
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