Seaports

Aalborg (DKAAL) is today a regional container terminal on the Limfjord handling around 70,000 TEU a year, and one of Den...

Frozen fish and shellfish — cold-water shrimp and halibut from Royal Greenland, plus a Polar Seafood shrimp plant — form...

Clinker, cement, foodstuffs, fruit and refined-oil products make up the working cargo mix at Abadan, a river port on Ira...

Abashiri is first and foremost a fishing port, not a container gateway — a distinction that matters for anyone planning ...

Southern Jutland's heavy-industry coastline gains its deep-water outlet at Aabenraa, where the Ensted Bulk Terminal offe...

Few ports are as closely tied to a single industry as Aberdeen is to North Sea energy: for more than fifty years this Sc...

Soybean meal is what put the Port of Grays Harbor at Aberdeen on the map: it is now the leading U.S. export gateway for ...

Cocoa is king in Abidjan: Côte d'Ivoire is the world's largest cocoa producer, and the commodity makes up roughly 40% of...

Abu Khammash is a small yet strategically significant port located on Libya's Mediterranean coast, playing a crucial rol...

Fertiliser, grain, citrus and offshore petroleum supplies have long moved through Abu Qir (UN/LOCODE EGAKI), a Mediterra...

Operating as a trade port since 1972, Zayed Port (Mina Zayed) on the Persian Gulf reinvented itself after December 2012,...

Around 4.5 million tonnes of cargo and roughly 156,000 TEU pass through Acajutla each year, making it El Salvador's prin...

Listed under UN/LOCODE SV AQJ and also known as the El Paso Terminal, this offshore facility lies about 1.9 km off Acaju...

Acapulco is better understood as a cruise and niche-cargo port than as a freight gateway, despite its size on Mexico's P...

Grain, animal feed, soya meal, flour, edible oil and fish meal make up the cargo profile of Achladi, a private bulk faci...

Today Ad Dakhla is first and foremost a fishing harbour rather than a commercial gateway: pelagic fish, octopus and sard...

The name still says Naval Air Station, but Adak has been a civilian port since the Navy's departure in 2002 — a year-rou...

Behind UN/LOCODE YE ADE lies Yemen's second-largest port, set in a natural harbour on the Gulf of Aden close to the Bab-...

Built as a cargo port for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Adler at the mouth of the Mzymta River near Sochi once handled crush...

The Henryk Arctowski (Poland) and Comandante Ferraz (Brazil) research stations are the only occupants of Admiralty Bay, ...

Sardines, anchovies, and other Mediterranean catch define daily business at Adra, a small Andalusian harbour on Spain's ...

Brightly painted houses and a steady stream of foot passengers and cars greet the Ærøfærgerne ferry as it arrives at Ærø...

Around 3 million tonnes a year, a container terminal of roughly 127,000 TEU and the title of the world's leading sardine...

An FPSO vessel spread-moored in roughly 1,350 metres of water forms the entire infrastructure of the Agbami terminal, lo...

Unlike Puerto Rico's main cargo gateway in San Juan, Aguadilla (PRBQN) is an open roadstead on the island's northwest ti...

Iron ore from the Sierra Almagrera and esparto grass for British paper mills once made Águilas (ES AGU) one of the Medit...

On Flores Island in Clayoquot Sound, off the west coast of Vancouver Island, Ahousat is the main village of the Ahousaht...

What is today a state recreation pier popular with anglers was, until 1950, a working sugar-shipping wharf: Ahukini Land...

Around 750,000 tonnes of cargo and more than 600 vessels pass through Åhus (SE AHU) each year, with bulk accounting for ...

Set on the southern shore of the Gulf of Corinth in Achaea, Aigio (GR GIE) is a modest port whose main maritime function...

Ain Sokhna is a crude-oil transshipment terminal, not a box port: it is the Red Sea head of the SUMED pipeline, operated...

IHI and its successor JMU AMTEC have shaped Aioi far more than any cargo line ever did: the waterfront in Hyogo Prefectu...

In the northern Emirates, where industrial Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain generate steady regional trade, Ajman Port offers a...

Listed under UN/LOCODE NZ AKA, Akaroa is a harbour on Banks Peninsula that functions purely as a seasonal cruise anchora...

Logs, zinc concentrates, cement, phosphate rock and petroleum products make up the bulk of what moves through Akita, the...

Some 200 kilometres off Rivers State in water more than 1,100 metres deep, Akpo is not a coastal harbour but a floating ...

Fishing once defined Åkrehamn (NO AKM) on Karmøy island, but the fish reception, freezer and oil plant were dismantled b...

Aksaz Limani carries no UN/LOCODE for good reason: the sheltered bay east of Marmaris is a Turkish naval base, not a com...

Around 500,000 tonnes of cargo move across Akureyri (IS AKU) each year, making it the leading port of northern Iceland a...

Behind the code US KQA lies Akutan Harbor, a natural basin in the eastern Aleutians that exists primarily to serve North...

Three berths, about 1,000 m of quay and roughly 1.5 million TEU of annual capacity make Aqaba (JO AQJ) the backbone of J...

El Arish (UN/LOCODE EGAAC), on Egypt's North Sinai Mediterranean coast, has become the country's main entry point for Ga...

Anyone shipping containers to southern Iraq almost always ends up at Umm Qasr rather than at Al Basrah (UN/LOCODE IQ BSR...

Built by Esso in 1970 as one of the world's first LNG export plants, Marsa el Brega (LY MBR) on Libya's Gulf of Sidra ha...

Roughly 19.9 million tonnes of cargo and some 7.5 million tonnes of bunker-fuel sales in 2024 make Fujairah the Middle E...

Liquefied petroleum gas, not boxes, defines Al Hamriyah (AE HAM), Sharjah's LPG export terminal on the Arabian Gulf, wit...

On Morocco's Mediterranean Rif coast, Al Hoceima functions mainly as a fishing and passenger port rather than a containe...

Al Hudaydah handles an estimated 70 percent of Yemen's imports, making this Red Sea port the country's main supply line ...

Grain, steel, cotton and consumer goods move through Alexandria, Egypt's historic principal Mediterranean port and — tog...

Rock and crushed aggregate from Ras Al Khaimah's quarries make up the bulk of what moves across Al Jazeera Port, a RAK P...

Fifty berths across two basins – 34 at King Fahd Industrial Port and 16 at Jubail Commercial Port – place Al Jubayl (SA ...

Roughly 2.67 million tonnes a year is the design throughput of Al Khair, a dedicated oil terminal about three kilometres...

Twenty-one berths totalling some 4,055 metres of quay, three of them dedicated to boxes, make Shuwaikh the backbone of K...

Latakia is Syria's principal container gateway: its CMA CGM-run Latakia International Container Terminal (LICT) handles ...

About 3.4 metres in the fairway and largely historic, the roadstead recorded under UN/LOCODE BH AMH off Bahrain's capita...

Some 958,000 tonnes of cargo and about 13,900 handled containers passed through Al Mukalla in 2024, confirming its role ...

Al Mukha (Mokha), registered under UN/LOCODE YE MOK on Yemen's Red Sea coast, is a small port with two jetties totalling...

Phosphate was for decades the cargo that defined Al Qusayr, shipped from here by the Italian Red Sea Phosphate Company f...

Al Rayyan Terminal is an offshore crude-export installation, not a port that handles commercial freight. Sitting about 5...

Operated by North Oil Company — a joint venture of QatarEnergy (70%) and TotalEnergies (30%) — Al Shaheen Terminal serve...

Up to three million barrels of crude a day can leave Iraq through the Al-Basra Oil Terminal when all four supertanker be...

Once the shipping point for the alabaster gypsum discovered off this Lake Huron shore in 1837, the port of Alabaster (UN...

The first container crane on the US West Coast was installed at Alameda's Encinal Terminals in 1959, yet this island in ...

Cruise vessels and the fast ferry from Kyrenia tie up below Alanya's 250-metre castle promontory, but no cargo, vehicle-...

Roughly three to four million tonnes move through Albany each year, Western Australia's oldest deep-water port and a ded...

Steel, wood pulp, scrap iron, grain and molasses define the cargo mix at Albany, an inland seaport roughly 200 km up the...

Set among the remote western Aleutian Islands in the Bering Sea, Alcan Harbor is a very small natural inlet with no docu...

The States of Alderney Harbour Authority runs Braye Harbour, the Channel island's only point of entry for passengers, ca...

Historically the centre of Sakhalin's coal industry, Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky is today a marginal, seasonal port that m...

Behind a large breakwater on Cormorant Island, fishing and pleasure craft share the harbour with the BC Ferries terminal...

Anchoring Norway's Sunnmøre seafood cluster, Ålesund ranks among the country's busiest fishing and seafood ports, openin...

Despite its riverside setting near Washington, Alexandria (US AXR) is no longer a working cargo port. Its former deep-wa...

While Alexandria Bay is the sixth-busiest crossing on the US–Canada border, handling close to 600,000 passenger vehicles...

Almost 14 million tonnes of cargo move across Alexandroupoli each year, making this northeastern Greek port a steady han...

Commanding the Strait of Gibraltar where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic, Algeciras (ES ALG) is Spain's leading por...

Six berths, about 34 hectares and some 11 metres of depth: the DP World Djazaïr terminal makes Algiers the principal con...

More a fishing and yacht harbour than a freight port, Alghero (IT AHO) sits in the old town on Sardinia's north-west coa...

Pleasure craft, charter-fishing boats and a municipal marina — not freight — define Algoma on Wisconsin's Lake Michigan ...

Freighters pass Algonac daily on the St. Clair River, but they do not stop here. This southeastern Michigan town — famou...

Treat Aliağa less as a single harbour than as one of Turkey's densest heavy-industry coastlines on the Aegean, a complex...

A ferry line to Oran and a growing cruise business set the tone at Alicante, a mid-sized Costa Blanca port on Spain's Me...

About 14 m of natural depth makes Alliford Bay a sheltered anchorage, but it offers no commercial cargo terminals, no cu...

Tied to Almería's marble and dry-bulk industries, the port of Almeria (ES LEI) on Spain's Andalusian coast ships cement,...

Bocas Fruit Company, a Chiquita subsidiary, runs Almirante as a dedicated fresh-fruit export terminal in Panama's Bocas ...

Copra, fuel and general supplies for Niue's roughly 1,600 residents pass across Sir Robert's Wharf at Alofi (UN/LOCODE N...

Copra for transhipment, general cargo and fishing landings define the trade of Alotau (PG GUR), the main port of Papua N...

Up to 2.7 million tonnes of cement a year make Alpena (US APN) on Lake Huron one of North America's largest cement sites...

Alta (NO ALF) is best read as a regional service port rather than a container hub, despite being the largest cargo harbo...

Hutchison Ports, through its Altamira Terminal Portuaria, anchors one of Mexico's four largest container gateways on the...

Unlike the commercial ports of the Black Sea, Alushta on Crimea's southern coast is foremost a seaside resort rather tha...

Gravel and steel set the rhythm at Amagasaki: imported aggregates and steel products dominate inbound traffic, while fin...

Copper concentrate is the single reason Amamapare exists as a port. Operated by PT Freeport Indonesia in Mimika Regency,...

Handling roughly 3.0 million TEU in 2024 — down about 5% year on year — across the Marport, Kumport and Mardaş terminals...

Owned and operated by Carnival Corporation, Amber Cove (UN/LOCODE COAMB) is a dedicated cruise terminal on Maimón Bay ne...

About 5% of all petroleum consumed in France passes through Ambès, making the headland at the Bec d'Ambès the fuel hub o...

Around 51,500 TEU and 626,000 tonnes of cargo a year make Yos Sudarso the principal seaport of Indonesia's Maluku provin...

Despite sitting on the Detroit River where it links Lake Erie with Lake St. Clair, Amherstburg (CA AMH) has only limited...

Run by Royal Arctic Havneservice, Ammassalik – today known as Tasiilaq (UN/LOCODE GLAGM) – is the main supply port and l...

Copra, tobacco and spices once moved through Ampenan (UN/LOCODE ID AMP), formerly the principal trading port of Lombok i...

Petroleum is the heart of Amsterdam's business: of the 74.4 million tonnes handled in 2024, roughly 76% were oil product...