List of deep-water ports

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

•  Lamu - talks re $3.5b loan from Qatar ^[7]
•  Technobanine Point
•  Coega ^[8]

[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 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^[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

•  Posorja ^[14]

[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

•  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

•  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 ^[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

[edit]New Zealand

•  Ports of Auckland, Auckland
•  Lyttelton
•  Marsden Point, Whangarei
•  New Plymouth
•  Port Chalmers, Dunedin
•  Tauranga