# Port Armstrong (US PTL)

**UN/LOCODE:** US PTL  
**Country:** United States  
**Water Body:** Alaska-Canada coastal waters; North Pacific Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Very Small  
**Harbor Type:** Coastal (Natural)  
**GPS:** 56.3000, -134.6667

Run today by Armstrong-Keta Inc. as a salmon hatchery, Port Armstrong (US PTL) on the south-east coast of Baranof Island was an early-20th-century whaling station and later a herring-reduction plant. The deep, sheltered bay has no commercial cargo or container handling; the site is dedicated to aquaculture and reachable only by water. Supplies and product move by vessel, and for commercial shipping Sitka, about 95 km to the north, is the nearest port.

## Transit Times & Routes

- [Los Angeles → Shanghai](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/los-angeles-shanghai)
- [Los Angeles → Shenzhen](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/los-angeles-shenzhen)
- [Los Angeles → Guangzhou](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/los-angeles-guangzhou)
- [Los Angeles → Hong Kong](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/los-angeles-hong-kong)
- [Los Angeles → Tokyo](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/los-angeles-tokyo)
- [Los Angeles → Busan](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/los-angeles-busan)

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