{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Place","additionalType":"https://schema.org/Port","name":"Ras Gharib","identifier":"EG RAG","unlocode":"EG RAG","city":null,"country":"Egypt","waterBody":"Gulf of Suez; Red Sea; Indian Ocean","harborSize":"Very Small","harborType":"Open Roadstead","channelDepthMeters":23.2,"confidenceLevel":null,"coordinates":{"latitude":28.35,"longitude":33.1},"description":"Discovered as a heavy-oil field in the 1930s, Ras Gharib grew into one of Egypt's oldest petroleum centres and today functions purely as a crude-oil loading terminal on the western shore of the Gulf of Suez. Operated by the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, it loads crude through three offshore single-buoy moorings (north, central and south), the southernmost handling larger tankers. The terminal handles roughly 24 vessels and about 3.9 million tonnes a year, almost entirely crude oil. It ","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/information/seaports/ras-gharib-port-eg-rag","markdownMirror":"https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/seaports/en/ras-gharib-port-eg-rag","source":null,"provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Freight Academy","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com"},"quickSummary":"Ras Gharib · (UN/LOCODE: EG RAG) · Egypt · Very Small · 23.2 m"}