# Kharg Island Oil Terminal (IR KHK)

**UN/LOCODE:** IR KHK  
**Country:** Iran  
**Water Body:** Persian Gulf; Indian Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Small  
**Harbor Type:** Open Roadstead  
**GPS:** 29.2333, 50.3333

Treat Kharg Island as an oil loading point, not a port for boxes: this terminal in the northern Persian Gulf handles close to 90% of Iran's crude exports and nothing resembling containers or general cargo. Water depths above 20 m alongside and at anchorage let VLCC supertankers berth and load, with several large tankers worked at once and tens of millions of barrels of storage behind the jetties. The facility moves crude oil and petroleum products only — there is no multipurpose, breakbulk or container operation. Crucially for forwarders, Iranian oil sits under sweeping US sanctions that effectively bar Western financing, insurance and chartering. No meaningful commercial hinterland network feeds the island. For containers or project cargo to Iran, route via Shahid Rajaee at Bandar Abbas or Bushehr instead.

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