# Puerto Cabello (VEPBL)

**UN/LOCODE:** VEPBL  
**Country:** Venezuela  
**Water Body:** Caribbean Sea; North Atlantic Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Medium  
**Harbor Type:** Coastal (Natural)  
**GPS:** 10.4833, -68.0000

More than 270,000 TEU passed through Puerto Cabello (VEPBL) in 2023 — well below its roughly 800,000 TEU design capacity, a gap that captures the port's deeper story. As Venezuela's largest and busiest port, it handles the bulk of the country's foreign trade from a site near the industrial city of Valencia. Managed by Bolivariana de Puertos (Bolipuertos), it is organised into several areas: container wharves, eleven berths for general cargo, two oil terminals and a chemical terminal at Borburata. Years of underinvestment have left ageing handling equipment, minimal automation and facilities in need of repair, conditions that routinely slow operations. Beyond containers, the port moves dry bulk, grain into quayside silos, chemicals and petroleum, with liner services from carriers including Maersk, MSC, CMA CGM and Seaboard Marine. As Venezuela's principal customs port, it concentrates much of the nation's import and export clearance, though state currency and import controls make procedures complex. Hinterland distribution runs mainly by road, linking Valencia, Maracay and the greater Caracas region. Depending on the cargo, shippers can weigh La Guaira, closer to Caracas, or Maracaibo to the west as alternatives.

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