# Watchet Harbor (GB WAT)

**UN/LOCODE:** GB WAT  
**Country:** United Kingdom  
**Water Body:** Bristol Channel; North Atlantic Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Very Small  
**Harbor Type:** Coastal (Breakwater)  
**GPS:** 51.1833, -3.3333

Once handling over 1,100 ship movements a year at its 1860s peak, Watchet shipped iron ore to Wales and landed timber and esparto grass for its paper mill — but the last cargo vessel left in 1993. The Bristol Channel basin is now a 150-berth marina with no commercial freight role: there are no container, customs or general-cargo facilities here. Forwarders with consignments for west Somerset rely instead on the deep-water ports of Avonmouth and Bristol. Watchet is worth a footnote in maritime history, not in present-day cargo planning.

## Transit Times & Routes

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

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