{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Place","additionalType":"https://schema.org/Port","name":"Xeros","identifier":"CY KAR","unlocode":"CY KAR","city":null,"country":"Cyprus","waterBody":"Mediterranean Sea; North Atlantic Ocean","harborSize":"Very Small","harborType":"Open Roadstead","channelDepthMeters":23.2,"confidenceLevel":null,"coordinates":{"latitude":35.133333,"longitude":32.833333},"description":"Once a key mineral-export point, Xeros on Morphou Bay no longer functions as a commercial cargo port. From the 1930s until 1974 the American-owned Cyprus Mines Corporation ran an ore-dressing plant and shiploader here, exporting copper concentrate and iron pyrites from the Skouriotissa mines. The end of mining exports in 1974 and the division of Cyprus left the site — now in the island's north, near Gemikonağı — largely dormant, with no regular international shipping and only an open roadstead o","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/information/seaports/xeros-port-cy-kar","markdownMirror":"https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/seaports/en/xeros-port-cy-kar","source":null,"provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Freight Academy","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com"},"quickSummary":"Xeros · (UN/LOCODE: CY KAR) · Cyprus · Very Small · 23.2 m"}