# Sisimiut (GL JHS)

**UN/LOCODE:** GL JHS  
**Country:** Greenland  
**Water Body:** Davis Strait; North Atlantic Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Small  
**Harbor Type:** Coastal (Natural)  
**GPS:** 66.9167, -53.7000

Three ports — Sisimiut, Nuuk and Aasiaat — together move roughly 70 % of all cargo entering or leaving Greenland, and Sisimiut, the country's second-largest town, sits squarely behind that volume. Facing the Davis Strait, the natural harbour mainly resupplies the community with food, fuel and building materials and ships out fishery products such as cold-water shrimp and halibut. Container handling is small-scale across one or two berths; since 2020 a Royal Arctic Line–Eimskip cooperation has linked the port on liner rotations to Iceland and Aarhus in Denmark. Because Greenland has no roads connecting its towns, there is no conventional hinterland, and onward distribution relies on smaller coastal feeders and air freight. With a channel depth near 23 m and quay depths around 11 m, the port suits mid-sized ice-class vessels rather than large container carriers. Higher-volume consignments are better consolidated via Nuuk or the European base ports of Aarhus and Aalborg.

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