A deep-water port is any port that can accommodate a fully laden Panamax ship. With the approval of the Panama Canal expansion proposal in October, 2006, this list will need to be significantly revised when the expansion is completed.
Africa
[edit]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 — under construction in 2007
[edit]Proposed
[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.
- 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 of Wilmington
Hampton Roads — Complex includes naval and commercial facilities
Port of Wilmington
Port of Charleston
Port of Savannah
Port Canaveral[9]- 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).[10] 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.[11]
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 [12]
Manta — Ecuador- Puerto Bolívar — Ecuador
Lázaro Cárdenas — Mexico- Manzanillo, Colima — Mexico
- Punta Colonet — near Baja California [13]
Colón — Panama
Montevideo
Boca Grande, Venezuela — Iron ore transfer station
[edit]Proposed
[edit]Asia
[edit]Brunei
[edit]Malaysia
Port of Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia- Johor Port — Malaysia
[edit]Cambodia
[edit]Bangladesh
[edit]Japan
Kashima — Container, dry and wet bulk and general cargo port- Fukuyama — Multi-purpose and dry bulk port
[edit]Hong Kong
[edit]Pakistan
[edit]China
[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
[edit]Myanmar
[edit]Republic of China
[edit]Saudi Arabia
[edit]Singapore
[edit]Sri Lanka
[edit]United Arab Emirates
[edit]Proposed
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)[15]
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
- Italy
- 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 [16]
- 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 [17]
- Port Hedland — north west Western Australia — iron ore.
- Cape Lambert [18] upgrade 80mtpa to 180 mtpa
- Dampier — north west Western Australia — iron ore.
East Arm Wharf (Port of Darwin) — Panamax
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