# Haeju Hang (KP HAE)

**UN/LOCODE:** KP HAE  
**Country:** North Korea  
**Water Body:** Yellow Sea; North Pacific Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Small  
**Harbor Type:** Coastal (Breakwater)  
**GPS:** 38.0000, 125.7000

Long the maritime outlet of Hwanghae Province, Haeju Hang sits on Haeju Bay on the southwest coast of North Korea, facing the Yellow Sea. It is the only port on the country's west coast that stays ice-free through winter, working three piers with a combined handling capacity of roughly 2.4 million tonnes a year. Its industrial hinterland includes smelting plants, glass factories, agricultural-equipment works and chemical plants, whose finished goods join cement, grain, seafood and salt as the principal cargoes. Shallow water (3.4 m pier depth) restricts it to smaller vessels; equipment on hand includes two mobile cranes and floating cranes, with road and rail links serving the provincial hinterland. Crucially for forwarders, UN sanctions on North Korea heavily restrict commercial shipping. In May 2026, a ten-nation joint statement before the UN Security Council confirmed Haeju's role as a hub for illegal sand exports — 92 Chinese-flagged self-propelled barges loaded sand there and transported it to Chinese ports in clear violation of sanctions. Haeju is effectively off-limits for regular international trade; Nampo, the larger west-coast port, falls under the same constraints.

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