# Playa De Ponce (PRPSE)

**UN/LOCODE:** PRPSE  
**Country:** Puerto Rico  
**Water Body:** Caribbean Sea; North Atlantic Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Medium  
**Harbor Type:** Coastal (Breakwater)  
**GPS:** 17.9833, -66.6167

Breakbulk, containers, dry and liquid bulk, and Ro-Ro traffic all move across the quays at Ponce, Puerto Rico's second-largest commercial dry-cargo port after San Juan. Officially the Rafael Cordero Santiago Port of the Americas, the facility sits on the island's southern Caribbean coast and handles roughly 250,000 TEU and more than 620,000 tonnes of cargo a year. Container work is supported by two post-Panamax cranes, a Gottwald crane for loose freight and seven rubber-tyred gantry cranes installed in 2008. The port is run by the municipal Autoridad del Puerto de Ponce. Inland distribution relies on road links toward Ponce city and the island interior, as Puerto Rico has no freight rail network. High-volume container lines generally favour San Juan in the north, leaving Ponce to serve southern dry-bulk and general-cargo flows.

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