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