# Matthew Town (BS MAT)

**UN/LOCODE:** BS MAT  
**Country:** The Bahamas  
**Water Body:** North Atlantic Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Very Small  
**Harbor Type:** Open Roadstead  
**GPS:** 20.9500, -73.6833

Salt — not containers — is what moves across the pier at Matthew Town (BS MAT) on Great Inagua. The port functions essentially as the private terminal of Morton Bahamas Limited, which exports more than a million tonnes of solar salt a year from vast evaporation ponds via a conveyor belt to a loading jetty in Man-of-War Bay. Bulk carriers berth and load directly; there is no container, breakbulk or reefer handling to speak of. Anchorage offers around 14 m of water and the cargo pier about 12.5 m, enough for sizeable dry-bulk vessels. With no road link beyond the island, the hinterland is Great Inagua itself. Forwarders handling boxed or consolidated cargo route via Nassau or Freeport, while regional transshipment runs through Kingston, Jamaica, or Caucedo in the Dominican Republic.

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