world deep ports
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Atlantic Ocean
(from North to South)
Tanger-med, Morocco
Jorf Lasfar, Morocco
Nouadhibou, Mauritania — iron ore terminal.
Nouakchott, Mauritania — proposed railhead for Phosphate mine.
Port Kamsar, Guinea — bauxite loading port, origin of Kamsarmax ship type.
Matakong, Guinea deep-water port for Simandou and Kalia iron ore — proposed.
Monrovia, Liberia - proposed deepening to 20m for 200,000t vessels.[1]
Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana — built 1928
Tema, Ghana — built 1961
Cotonou — Benin
Lomé — Togo [2]
Kribi, Cameroon — oil terminal
Lolabé, Cameroon — iron ore — proposed Capesize with 22m draft or Chinamax with 24m
draft.[3]
Owendo, Gabon — railhead
Santa Clara, Gabon — proposed deep-water port with railhead for Makokou iron ore.
Lobito, Angola
Walvis Bay, Namibia — railhead
Saldanha Bay, South Africa
Port of Nacala, Mozambique
[edit]Proposed
Bargny, Senegal [4]
San Pédro, Côte d'Ivoire for iron ore
Tagrin Point, Sierra Leone for iron ore [5]
Ikot Akpatek, Akwa-Ibom, Nigeria — proposed
Shearwater Bay, Namibia — coal [6] (30 km south of Luderitz)
[edit]Indian Ocean
(from North to South)
Nacala, Mozambique — railhead for Malawi
Richards Bay, South Africa
Ngqura, South Africa
[edit]Proposed
Lamu - talks re $3.5b loan from Qatar [7]
Technobanine Point
[edit]Americas
[edit]Canada
[edit]Atlantic Ocean
Sept-Îles — An iron ore terminal on the St Lawrence River.
Port Cartier — An iron ore terminal on the St Lawrence River.
Quebec city — A deep water terminal on the St Lawrence River and the gateway to the Great
Lakes, capable of accommodating Panamax and Capesize vessels with 50 feet of water at low tide
Chandler — large deep-water wharf.
Melford Terminal (proposed) — deep-water terminal on the Strait of Canso.
Port of Halifax — the most easterly North American full-service container port.
[edit]Pacific Ocean
Port of Prince Rupert — a deep sea port with direct rail connections to major North American
cities.
Port Alberni — The Alberni Inlet is a fjord like channel that deep sea vessels and cruise ships
can easily navigate.
Port of Vancouver — A modern port of entry on the west coast of Canada.
Crofton — The main factor for its location is the depth of the water, unusual for the east coast
of Vancouver Island.
[edit]United States of America
[edit]Atlantic Ocean
Port of Baltimore
Port of Duluth-Superior
Port of Boston
Port of New York and New Jersey includes
Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal
Port of Wilmington
Hampton Roads — Complex includes naval and commercial facilities
Port of Wilmington
Port of Charleston
Port of Savannah
Port Canaveral [8]
Port Everglades
Port of Miami
[edit]Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico
Port of Tampa
Port of Mobile — the only deep-water port in the state of Alabama
Port of New Orleans
Port of Beaumont — a deep-water port located in Beaumont, Texas.
Port of Galveston — the oldest port on the Gulf Coast, west of New Orleans.
Port of Houston — located in Houston, Texas, 10th busiest port in world by tonnage.
Port of the Americas (Port of Ponce) — capable of servicing post-Panamax vessels with a
controlling depth of 50 feet (15 m).[9] The Holsatia Express, a vessel of 12.6 m (41 feet) draft, had to
be turned away in 2008 because of insufficient water depth, suggesting Ponce may not be a true
"deep-water port".
[edit]Pacific Ocean
Port of Seattle
Port of Tacoma
Port Madison — sometimes called Port Madison Bay, is a deep-water bay located on Puget
Sound.
Port Angeles
Port of Grays Harbor
Port of Longview
Port of Kalama
Port of Vancouver USA
Port of Portland — Three post-Panamax terminals.
Port of Coos Bay — Oregon's second busiest seaport
Port of Humboldt Bay — the only deep-water port in California north of San Francisco Bay
Port of Richmond
Port of Stockton — California's farthest-inland deep-water port.
Port of Oakland — the channel is thirty feet deep and eight hundred feet wide.
Port of Redwood City — resulting from dredging the mouth of Redwood Creek
Port Hueneme — the only deep-water port between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and the
only military deep-water port between San Diego Bay and Puget Sound
Port of Los Angeles — Busiest port in the United States.
Port of Long Beach — One of the busiest container ports in the world.
Port of San Diego — Home to the bulk of the United States Navy Pacific Carrier Fleet. Only
the first nine miles (14 km) of the bay are accessible to Panamax vessels.
[edit]Central America, South America
Buenos Aires — Argentina
Bahía Blanca — Argentina
Quequén — Argentina
Bridgetown — A dredging project started in 2002 now allows for some of the world's largest
cruise ships to berth in Barbados.[10]
Port of Tubarão, Vitória — Brazil It is the largest iron ore embarking port in the world deep-
water port receiving ships 350,000 tons .
Ponta da Madeira — Brazil
Ponta Ubu — Brazil
Guaiba — Brazil Iron ore export terminal owned and operated by Vale (ex CVRD) in
Sepetiba Bay
Itaguai — Brazil Iron ore export terminal now owned and operated by Vale (ex CVRD) in
Sepetiba Bay
Valparaíso
Cartagena, Colombia
Ciénaga, Colombia — coal export port [11]
Manta — Ecuador
Puerto Bolívar — Ecuador
Lázaro Cárdenas — Mexico
Manzanillo, Colima — Mexico
Punta Colonet — near Baja California [12]
Colón — Panama
Montevideo
Boca Grande, Venezuela — Iron ore transfer station
[edit]Proposed
Posorja [13]
[edit]Asia
[edit]Brunei
Muara — Brunei's only deep-water port.
[edit]Malaysia
Port of Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia
Johor Port — Malaysia
[edit]Cambodia
Port of Sihanoukville
[edit]Bangladesh
Chittagong
Mongla
[edit]Japan
Kashima — Container, dry and wet bulk and general cargo port
Fukuyama — Multi-purpose and dry bulk port
[edit]Hong Kong
Hong Kong
[edit]Pakistan
Gwadar
Karachi
Bin Qasim
[edit]China
Shanghai
Qingdao
[edit]India
Chennai Port Trust
Cochin Port Trust, vallarpadam container terminal
Dhamra Port
Ennore Port Limited
Hazira Port Private Limited
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, Navi Mumbai
Kakinada Seaports Limited
Kandla Port Trust
Kolkata Port Trust
Mormugao Port Trust
Mumbai Port Trust
Mundra Port
New Mangalore Port Trust
Port of Paradip
Port Pipavav
Tuticorin Port Trust
Vishakhapatnam Port Trust
[edit]Proposed
Krishnapatnam
Vizhinjam International Seaport, Kerala
[edit]Myanmar
Thilawa Port
Dawei Port
[edit]Republic of China
Kaohsiung
[edit]Saudi Arabia
Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Jeddah Seaport, Saudi Arabia
[edit]Singapore
Port of Singapore
[edit]Sri Lanka
Colombo
[edit]United Arab Emirates
Dubai
[edit]Proposed
Vizhinjam International Seaport
Sonadia — Bangladesh (near Cox's Bazaar)
Yangshan
Kyaukphyu — Burma for import of oil to China.
Dawei — Burma
Van Phong Port
[edit]Europe
Spain
- Gijon 57 feet draft may accommodate vessels up to 59 feet
Benelux
Port of Antwerp
IJmuiden (Amsterdam)
Port of Rotterdam, (post-Panamax, largest port in Europe)
Port of Zeebrugge — located in Belgium.
Poland
Gdańsk — (Baltimax, post-Panamax)
Portugal
Port of Sines — located in Portugal.
Scandinavia
Gothenburg — located in Sweden
Port of Södertälje — (Stockholm)
Port of Norrköping — (East coast)
Narvik
Port of Aarhus — (post-Panamax)
Thule Air Base — located in Greenland (northernmost deep water port in the world)[14]
Port of Helsinki — (post-Panamax)
France
Dunkirk. Different kinds of liquid and bulk handling.
Le Havre — France (oil, coal, chemicals, container) Draft up to 25m (Antifer)
United Kingdom
Port of Barrow
Port of Felixstowe — (post-Panamax, 35% of UK container traffic)
Port of Liverpool — (planned new post-Panamax container terminal expansion) New floating
landing stage facility in Mersey accommodates cruise ships of 345 metres in length and 10.0 metres
draught
Port of Southampton — (post-Panamax, traditional liner port)
Port Talbot
Milford Haven — South Hook and Dragon LNG facilities
Redcar
Invergordon
Hunterston Terminal
Hound point
Iceland
Reyðarfjörður
Italy
Gioia Tauro
Cagliari
Other
Omišalj — super tanker oil terminal on island Krk in Croatia
JadeWeserPort — Wilhelmshaven/Germany (oil, coal, chemicals)
[edit]Oceania
[edit]Australia
(clockwise from north)
Port of Townsville — military port, Mineral Ores, Fertilizer, Concentrates, Sugar and Motor
Vehicles. Able to accommodate 4 Panamax vessels at a time.
Abbot Point — coal export terminal
Dalrymple Bay — coal export terminal - part of Hay Point, Queensland
Hay Point — BHP (BMA joint venture) coal export terminal
Gladstone — coal
Port of Brisbane — coal, containers
Port Stephens — shallow and sandy but contains sufficient deep-water to accommodate
large vessels.
Newcastle — coal, wheat
Port Botany (Sydney) — containers;
Port Kembla — coal, wheat, cars
Melbourne
Geelong
Portland, Victoria
Adelaide Outer Harbour deepened to Post-Panamax in 2006.
Port Bonython, Capesize — oil and proposed iron ore [15]
Whyalla, SA — 65,000t ships
Sheep Hill — Capesize - proposed iron ore port
Port Lincoln — deep-water port for exporting grain and future iron ore. Barges take ore to
deep water.
Fremantle, Western Australia (Perth)
Geraldton, Western Australia (Midwest)
Oakajee Port - under construction [16]
Port Hedland — north west Western Australia — iron ore.
Cape Lambert [17] upgrade 80mtpa to 180 mtpa
Dampier — north west Western Australia — iron ore.
East Arm Wharf (Port of Darwin) — Panamax
[edit]New Zealand
Ports of Auckland, Auckland
Lyttelton
Marsden Point, Whangarei
New Plymouth
Port Chalmers, Dunedin
Tauranga