Top World Ports
NORTH AMERICA
USA - Key ports only, Capital: Washington, DC. Key Seafreight Ports:
Baltimore, Maryland*
Charleston, South Carolina*
Houston / Galveston, Texas*
Jacksonville, Florida*
Long Beach / Los Angeles, California*
Miami, Florida*
New York, New York*
Port Everglades, Florida*
Port of Virginia / Norfolk, Virginia*
San Francisco/Oakland, California*
Savannah, Georgia*
Seattle / Tacoma, Washington*
Canada - Key ports only, Capital: Ottawa, Ontario. Key Seafreight Ports:
Halifax, Nova Scotia*
Montreal, Quebec*
Vancouver, British Columbia*
Mexico - Key ports only, Capital: Mexico City. Key Seafreight Ports:
Manzanillo, Pacific Ocean
Tampico, Gulf of Mexico
Veracruz, Gulf of Mexico*
CENTRAL AMERICA
Bahamas, Capital: Freeport. Key Seafreight Ports:
Freeport*
Belize, Capital: Belmopan. Key Seafreight Ports:
Belize City
Chetumal
Costa Rica, Capital: San Jose. Key Seafreight Ports:
Puerto Limon*
San Juan del Sur
Caldera
Cuba, Capital: Havana. Key Seafreight Ports:
Havana
Matanzas
Dominican Republic, Capital: Santo Domingo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Santo Domingo
Puerto Plata
Rio Haina
El Salvador, Capital: San Salvador. Key Seafreight Ports:
La Libertad
Acajutla
San Lorenzo
Guatemala, Capital: Guatemala City. Key Seafreight Ports:
Santo Tomas de Castilla
Champerico
San Jose
Haiti, Capital: Port au Prince. Key Seafreight Ports:
Port au Prince
Cap Haitien
Honduras, Capital: Tegucicalpa. Key Seafreight Ports:
Puerto Castilla
Puerto Cortes
Jamaica, Capital: Kingston. Key Seafreight Ports:
Kingston*
Ocho Rios
Montego Bay
Nicaragua, Capital: Managua. Key Seafreight Ports:
Puerto Cabezas
Puerto Benjamin Zeledan
Panama, Capital: Panama City. Key Seafreight Ports:
Colon*
Balboa
Cristobal
Puerto Rico/U.S., Capital: San Juan. Key Seafreight Ports:
San Juan*
Las Mareas
Ponce
Other Islands. Key Seafreight Ports:
Acklins Islands
Andros Island
Anguilla / U.K.
Antigua and Barbuda (St. Johns)
Aruba / Netherlands
Barbados (Bridgetown)
Bimini
Bonaire / Netherlands
British Virgin Ilands
Cat Island
Crooked Island
Curacao (Willemstad) / Nitherlands
Dominica (Roseau)
Eleuthera
Grand Turks
Great Abaco
Great Exuma
Great Inagua
Grenada (St. George's)
Guadeloppe / France
Long Island
Marie Galante
Martinique (Fort de France) / France
Mayaguana
Netherlands Antille
New Providence (Nassau)
Rum Cay
San Salvador
St. Barthelemy
St. Christopher abd Nevis Montserrant / UK
St. Croix / U.S.
St. Lucia (Castries)
St. Martin / France and Netherlands
St. Vincent and Grenadines (Kingstown)
Trinidad and Tobago (Port of Spain)
Turks and Caicos Islands
Virgins Islands / U.S.
SOUTH AMERICA
Argentina, Capital: Buenos Aires. Key Seafreight Ports:
Buenos Aires
Mar del Plata
Bahia Blanca
Punta Quilla
Bolivia, Capitol: La Paz. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via Argentina or Brazil.
Brazil, Capital: Brasilia. Key Seafreight Ports:
Santos*
Rio de Janeiro
Porto Alegre
Rio Grande
Chile, Capital: Santiago. Key Seafreight Ports:
San Antonio*
Antofagasta
Valparaiso
Valdivia
Colombia, Capital: Bogota. Key Seafreight Ports:
Barranquilla
Puerto Bolivar
Cartagena
Turbo
Bonaventura
Ecuador, Capital: Quito. Key Seafreight Ports:
Guayaquil*
Puna
French Guiana, Capitol: Gayenne. Key Seafreight Ports:
Gayenne
St. Laurent
Guyana, Capital: Georgetown. Key Seafreight Ports:
Georgetown
Paraguay, Capital: Asuncion. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via Argentina.
Peru, Capital: Lima. Key Seafreight Ports:
Callao*
Matarani
Chimbote
Suriname, Capital: Paramaribo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Paramaribo
Uruguay, Capital: Montevideo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Montivideo
Venezuela, Capital: Caracas. Key Seafreight Ports:
Puerto Cabello*
La Guaira (Caracas)
Maraciaibo
Puerto la Cruz
WESTERN EUROPE, SCANDINAVIA & U.K
Andorra, Co-principality of France and Spain. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land locked country. Ocean freight via France and Spain.
Ausrtia, Capital: Vienna. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land locked country. Ocean freight via all major ports of Europe.
Belgium, Capital: Brussels. Key Seafreight Ports:
Antwerp*
Zeebrugge*
Ostend
Denmark, Capital: Copenhagen. Key Seafreight Ports:
Aarhus*
Copenhagen
Odense
Aalborg
Estonia, Capital: Tallin. Key Seafreight Ports:
Tallin
Kesklinna
Muuga
Harbour
Germany, Capital: Berlin. Key Seafreight Ports:
Hamburg*
Bremerhaven*
Rostock
Greece Piraeus
Finland, Capital: Helsinki. Key Seafreight Ports:
Helsinki
Kotka
Hanko
Hamina
Rauma
Oulu
France, Capital: Paris. Key Seafreight Ports:
Le Havre*
Brest
Calais
Dunkirk
Nantes
Bordeaux
Marseilles*
Corsica, a French Dependency: Bastia and Ajaccio
Iceland, Capital: Reykjavik. Key Seafreight Ports:
Reykjavik
Ireland, Capital: Dublin. Key Seafreight Ports:
Dublin*
Cork
Shannon
Estuary
Waterford
Italy, Capital: Rome. Key Seafreight Ports:
Gioia Tauro*
Genoa*
Livorno*
La Spezia*
Naples
Salerno
Venice
Ravenna
Brindisi
Sicily: Palermo and Sardinia's Augusta
Latvia, Capital: Riga. Key Seafreight Ports:
Riga
Liepaja
Venspils
Lithuania, Capital: Vilnus. Key Seafreight Ports:
Klaipeda
Luxemburg, Capital: Luxemburg. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land locked country. Ocean freight via Netherlands and Belgium
Monaco, Principality in the Southeast of France. Key Seafreight Ports:
Monaco
Netherlands (Holland), Capital: Amsterdam. (Seat of Governmen: The Hague). Key Seafreight Ports:
Rotterdam (the largest port of the world)*
Amsterdam
Norway, Capital: Oslo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Bergen
Oslo
Stavanger
Kristiansund
Trondheim
Portugal, Capital: Lisbon. Key Seafreight Ports:
Lisbon*
Leixoes
Setubal
Spain, Capital: Madrid. Key Seafreight Ports:
Barcelona*
Valencia*
Malaga
Algeciras*
Bilbao*
Santander
Gijon
Las Palmas*
'Gran Canaria Island
Sweden, Capital: Stockholm. Key Seafreight Ports:
Goteborg*
Stockholm
Gavle
Sundsvall
Trelleborg
Malmo
Switzerland, Capital: London. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land locked country. Ocean freight via all major ports of Europe.
United Kingdom, Capital: London. Key Seafreight Ports:
Felixtowe*
London/Thamesport*
Southampton*
Cardiff
Liverpool*
Tilbury*
Aberdeen
Glasgow
Belfast, Northern Ireland
EASTERN EUROPE
Albania, Capital: Tirana. Key Seafreight Ports:
Durres
Vlore
Armenia, Capital: Yerevan. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via Georgia and Turkey
Azerbaijan, Capital: Baku. Key Seafreight Ports:
Baku
Belarus, Capital: Minsk. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via Luthuania and Latvia
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Capital: Sarejevo. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via Croatia
Bulgaria, Capital: Sofia. Key Seafreight Ports:
Varna
Balchik
Nessebar
Crete (island of) Key Seafreight Ports:
Suda Bay
Canea
Croatia, Capital: Zagreb. Key Seafreight Ports:
Rijeka
Pula
Split
Ploce
Cyprus (Island of), Capital: Nicosia / Turkish and Greek possession. Seafreight Ports:
Kyrenia
Limassol
Czech Republic, Capital: Prague. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports of Western Europe
Georgia, Capital: Tbilisi. Key Seafreight Ports:
Batumi
Poti
Sukhumi
Greece, Capital: Athens. Key Seafreight Ports:
Piraeus*
Thessaloniki
Hungary, Capital: Budapest. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports of Western Europe
Malta, Capital: Valletta. Seafreight Ports:
Malta Freeport*
Macedonia, Capital: Skopje. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via Greece and Albania
Moldova, Capital: Kishinev (Chisinau). Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via Romania, Ukraine and Russia
Poland, Capital: Warsaw. Key Seafreight Ports:
Gdansk
Gdynia
Ustka
Darlowo
Romania, Capital: Bucharest. Key Seafreight Ports:
Constantza
Mangalia
Sulina
Russia, Capital: Moscow. Key Seafreight Ports:
St. Petersburg
Kaliningrad
Rostov
Volgograd
Port on Don
Novorosiysk
Archangelsk
Murmansk
Serbia, Capital: Belgrade. Key Seafreight Ports:
Kotor
Bar
Slovakia, Capital: Bratislava. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports of Western Europe
Slovenia, Capital: Ljubljana. Key Seafreight Ports:
Koper
Piran
Turkey, Capital: Ankara. Key Seafreight Ports:
Izmir*
Istanbul
Mersin
Ishkenderun
Izmit
Ukraine, Capital: Kiev. Key Seafreight Ports:
Odessa
Sevastopol
Yalta
Mariupol
Iliyechevsk
THE MIDDLE EAST
Bahrain, Capital: Al Manamah. Key Seafreight Ports:
Mina Sulman
Sitra
Iran, Capital: Tehran. Key Seafreight Ports:
Bandar Imman Khomeini
Bandar Shaheed Bahonar / Rejaee (formerly Bandar Abbass)
Khorramashahar
Abadan
Bandar Anazali
Iraq, Capital: Baghdad. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Beirut and Lebanon
Israel, Capital: Tel Aviv. Key Seafreight Ports:
Ashdod*
Haifa
Eilat
Hadera
Jordan, Capital: Amman. Key Seafreight Ports:
Aqaba
via Israeli ports
Kuwait, Capital: Kuwait. Key Seafreight Ports:
Kuwait
Shuaiba
Lebanon, Capital: Beirut. Key Seafreight Ports:
Beirut
Selaata
Tripoli
Oman, Capital: Muscat. Key Seafreight Ports:
Salalah*
Mina Raysut
Port Sultan Qaqboos
Qatar, Capital: Doha. Key Seafreight Ports:
Doha
Messai'eed
Saudi Arabia, Capital: Riyadh. Key Seafreight Ports:
Dammam*
Jeddah*
Jubail
Gizan
Yanbu/King Fahd Port
Syria, Capital: Damascus. Key Seafreight Ports:
Lattakia
Tartous
U.A.E - United Arab Emirates, Capital: Abu Dhabi. Key Seafreight Ports:
Dubai (Jebel Ali & Port Rashid)*
Fujairah*
Yemen, Capital: Tehran. Key Seafreight Ports:
Hodeidah
Mokha
Aden
Mukalla
AFRICA
Algeria, Capital: Algiers. Key Seafreight Ports:
Algiers
Annaba
Ghazaouet
Oran
Angola & Cabinda, Capital: Luanda. Key Seafreight Ports:
Luanda
Lobito
Nambibe
Benin, Capital: Porto Novo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Cotonou
Botswana, Capital: Gaborone. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in South Africa
Burkina Faso, Capital: Ouagadougou. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast
Burundi, Capital: Bujumbura. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Tanzania
Cameroon, Capital: Yaounde. Key Seafreight Ports:
Douala
Central African Republic, Capital: Bangui. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Cameroon
Chad, Capital: N'Diamena. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Cameroon
Congo (The), Capital: Brazzaville. Key Seafreight Ports:
Pointe Noire
Congo (The Democratic Repablic of), Capital: Kinshasha. Key Seafreight Ports:
Matadi
Boma
Banana
Djibouti, Capital: Djibouti. Key Seafreight Ports:
Djibouti
Egypt, Capital: Cairo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Alexandria
Port Said
Suez
Damietta
Equatorial Guinea, Capital: Malabo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Malabo (in Island)
Bata (on African continent)
Eritrea, Capital: Asmera. Key Seafreight Ports:
Assab
Massawa
Ethiopia, Capital: Addiss Ababa. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Djibouti
Gabon, Capital: Libreville. Key Seafreight Ports:
Libreville
Port Genti
Gambia, Capital: Banjul. Key Seafreight Ports:
Banjul
Ghana, Capital: Accra. Key Seafreight Ports:
Tema
Takoradi
Guinea, Capital: Conakry. Key Seafreight Ports:
Conakry
Kamsar
Guinea Bissau, Capital: Bissau. Key Seafreight Ports:
Bissau
Ivory Coast, Capital: Abijan. Key Seafreight Ports:
Abijan
San Pedro
Kenya, Capital: Nairobi. Key Seafreight Ports:
Mombasa
Lamu
Lesotho, Capital: Maseru. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in South Africa
Liberia, Capital: Monrovia. Key Seafreight Ports:
Monrovia
Buchanan
Cape Palmas
Greenville
Libya, Capital: Tripoli. Key Seafreight Ports:
Tripoli
Benghazi
Tobruk
Marsa el Brega
Madagascar (Island), Capital: Antananarivo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Toamasina
Mahajanga
Antsiranana
Malawi, Capital: Lilongwe. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Tanzania
Mali, Capital: Bamako. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Senegal and Gambia
Mauritania, Capital: Nouakchott. Key Seafreight Ports:
Nouakchott
Nouadhibou
Morocco, Capital: Rabat. Key Seafreight Ports:
Casablanca
Agadir
Tangier
Melilla (under Spanish jurisdication)
Mozambique, Capital: Maputo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Maputo
Beira
Nacala
Namibia, Capital: Windheoek. Key Seafreight Ports:
Walvis bay
Luderitz
Niger, Capital: Niameyt. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Nigeria
Nigeria, Capital: Abuja. Key Seafreight Ports:
Apapa (Lagos)
Port Harcourt
Rwanda, Capital: Kigali. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Tanzania
Senegal, Capital: Dakar. Key Seafreight Ports:
Dakar
Kaolack
Sierra Leone, Capital: Freetown. Key Seafreight Ports:
Freetown
Somalia, Capital: Mogadishu. Key Seafreight Ports:
Mogadishu
Berbera
Merca
South Africa, Capital: Pretoria (administrative); Cape Town (ligislative); Bloemfontein (juducial). Key Seafreight Ports:
Durban*
Cape Town
Port Elizabeth
East London
Sudan, Capital: Khartoum. Key Seafreight Ports:
Port Sudan
Suakin
Swaziland, Capital: Mbabane. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in South Africa
Tanzania, Capital: Dar Es Salaam. Key Seafreight Ports:
Dar es Salaam
Togo, Capital: Lome. Key Seafreight Ports:
Lome
Tunisia, Capital: Tunis. Key Seafreight Ports:
Tunis
Bizerta
Sfax
La Goelette
Uganda, Capital: Kampala. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Kenya
Western Sahara, Capital: None. (Territory contested by Morocco and Polisario Front). Key Seafreight Ports:
Ad Dakhla
Laayoune (El Aaiun)
Zambia, Capital: Luska. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Tanzania
Zimbabwe, Capital: Harare. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Tanzania
CENTRAL ASIA
Afganistan, Capital: Kabul. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports Russia, Pakistan or Iran
Krygystan, Capital: Bishkek. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports Russia, Pakistan or Iran
Tajikistan, Capital: Dushanbe. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports Russia, Pakistan or Iran
Turkmenistan, Capital: Ashkhabad. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports Russia, Pakistan or Iran
Uzbekistan, Capital: Tashkent. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports Russia, Pakistan or Iran
EAST ASIA
China, Capital: Beijing (Peking). Key Seafreight Ports:
Dalian*
Guangzhou*
Haikou (Hainan Island)
Ningbo*
Qingdao*
Shanghai*
Shenzhen*
Tianjin*
Xiamen*
Zhanjiang
Hong Kong*
Japan, Capital: Tokyo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Tokyo*
Yokohama*
Nagoya*
Osaka*
Kobe*
Hakata*
Kampuchea (Cambodia), Capital: Phnom-Penh. Key Seafreight Ports:
Phnom-Penh
Sihanoukville
Laos, Capital: Vientiane. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Thailand
Mayanmar (Burma), Capital: Rangoon. Key Seafreight Ports:
Yangon
Mawlamyine
Mongolia, Capital: Ulan Bataar. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Russia and China
North Korea, Capital: Pyongyang. Key Seafreight Ports:
Chongjin
Nampo
Wonsan
Russia (Asian), Capital: Moscow. Key Seafreight Ports:
Nakhodka
Vladivostok
Vostochyy
Uglrgorsk
Nevelsk (Sakhalin Island)
South Korea, Capital: Seoul. Key Seafreight Ports:
Pusan*
Inchon*
Kwangyang*
Taiwan, Capital: Taipei. Key Seafreight Ports:
Kaohsiung*
Keelung*
Taichung*
Thailand, Capital: Bangkok. Key Seafreight Ports:
Bangkok*
Laem Chabang*
Phuket (Malya Peninsula)
Vietnam, Capital: Hanoi. Key Seafreight Ports:
Ho Chi Minh City
Haiphong
Da Nang
Can Tho
INDIA SUB-CONTINENT
Bangladesh, Capital: Dhaka. Key Seafreight Ports:
Chittagong
Chalna
Bhutan, Capital: Thimphu. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Landlocked country.
India, Capital: New Dehli. Key Seafreight Ports:
Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva)*
Mumbai (Bombay)*
Calcutta
Madras
Maldives, Capital: Male. Key Seafreight Ports:
Male
Nepal, Capital: Kathmandu. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Landlocked country.
Pakistan, Capital: Islamabad. Key Seafreight Ports:
Karachi
Port Qasim
Sri Lanka, Capital: Colombo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Colombo*
Galle
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Burnei (Sultanate), Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan. Key Seafreight Ports:
Maura Port
Indonesia, Capital: Jakarta. Key Seafreight Ports:
Jakarta / Tanjung Priok*
Tajung Perak (Jawa)
Palembang
Panhang
Kupang
Ujing Pandang
Sorong
Malaysia, Capital: Kuala Lumpur. Key Seafreight Ports:
Port Klang* (Selangor)
Penang* (Pengang)
Johor* (Johor/Malacca)
Kuching
Kota Kinabalu
Kuantan
Papua New Guinea, Capital: Port Moresby. Key Seafreight Ports:
Port Moresby
Philippines, Capital: Manila. Key Seafreight Ports:
Manila* (Luzon)
Davao (Mindanao)
Cebu (Cebu)
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
Australia, Capital: Canberra. Key Seafreight Ports:
Sidney*
Melbourne*
Port Hedlan
Fremantle
Newcastle
Brisbane
Hay Point
Port Walcott
Gladstone
Port Kembla
Adelaid
New Zealand, Capital: Wellington (North Island). Key Seafreight Ports:
Wellington
Auckland
New Plymouth
Bluff
Lyttelton
Otago
USA - Key ports only, Capital: Washington, DC. Key Seafreight Ports:
Baltimore, Maryland*
Charleston, South Carolina*
Houston / Galveston, Texas*
Jacksonville, Florida*
Long Beach / Los Angeles, California*
Miami, Florida*
New York, New York*
Port Everglades, Florida*
Port of Virginia / Norfolk, Virginia*
San Francisco/Oakland, California*
Savannah, Georgia*
Seattle / Tacoma, Washington*
Canada - Key ports only, Capital: Ottawa, Ontario. Key Seafreight Ports:
Halifax, Nova Scotia*
Montreal, Quebec*
Vancouver, British Columbia*
Mexico - Key ports only, Capital: Mexico City. Key Seafreight Ports:
Manzanillo, Pacific Ocean
Tampico, Gulf of Mexico
Veracruz, Gulf of Mexico*
CENTRAL AMERICA
Bahamas, Capital: Freeport. Key Seafreight Ports:
Freeport*
Belize, Capital: Belmopan. Key Seafreight Ports:
Belize City
Chetumal
Costa Rica, Capital: San Jose. Key Seafreight Ports:
Puerto Limon*
San Juan del Sur
Caldera
Cuba, Capital: Havana. Key Seafreight Ports:
Havana
Matanzas
Dominican Republic, Capital: Santo Domingo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Santo Domingo
Puerto Plata
Rio Haina
El Salvador, Capital: San Salvador. Key Seafreight Ports:
La Libertad
Acajutla
San Lorenzo
Guatemala, Capital: Guatemala City. Key Seafreight Ports:
Santo Tomas de Castilla
Champerico
San Jose
Haiti, Capital: Port au Prince. Key Seafreight Ports:
Port au Prince
Cap Haitien
Honduras, Capital: Tegucicalpa. Key Seafreight Ports:
Puerto Castilla
Puerto Cortes
Jamaica, Capital: Kingston. Key Seafreight Ports:
Kingston*
Ocho Rios
Montego Bay
Nicaragua, Capital: Managua. Key Seafreight Ports:
Puerto Cabezas
Puerto Benjamin Zeledan
Panama, Capital: Panama City. Key Seafreight Ports:
Colon*
Balboa
Cristobal
Puerto Rico/U.S., Capital: San Juan. Key Seafreight Ports:
San Juan*
Las Mareas
Ponce
Other Islands. Key Seafreight Ports:
Acklins Islands
Andros Island
Anguilla / U.K.
Antigua and Barbuda (St. Johns)
Aruba / Netherlands
Barbados (Bridgetown)
Bimini
Bonaire / Netherlands
British Virgin Ilands
Cat Island
Crooked Island
Curacao (Willemstad) / Nitherlands
Dominica (Roseau)
Eleuthera
Grand Turks
Great Abaco
Great Exuma
Great Inagua
Grenada (St. George's)
Guadeloppe / France
Long Island
Marie Galante
Martinique (Fort de France) / France
Mayaguana
Netherlands Antille
New Providence (Nassau)
Rum Cay
San Salvador
St. Barthelemy
St. Christopher abd Nevis Montserrant / UK
St. Croix / U.S.
St. Lucia (Castries)
St. Martin / France and Netherlands
St. Vincent and Grenadines (Kingstown)
Trinidad and Tobago (Port of Spain)
Turks and Caicos Islands
Virgins Islands / U.S.
SOUTH AMERICA
Argentina, Capital: Buenos Aires. Key Seafreight Ports:
Buenos Aires
Mar del Plata
Bahia Blanca
Punta Quilla
Bolivia, Capitol: La Paz. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via Argentina or Brazil.
Brazil, Capital: Brasilia. Key Seafreight Ports:
Santos*
Rio de Janeiro
Porto Alegre
Rio Grande
Chile, Capital: Santiago. Key Seafreight Ports:
San Antonio*
Antofagasta
Valparaiso
Valdivia
Colombia, Capital: Bogota. Key Seafreight Ports:
Barranquilla
Puerto Bolivar
Cartagena
Turbo
Bonaventura
Ecuador, Capital: Quito. Key Seafreight Ports:
Guayaquil*
Puna
French Guiana, Capitol: Gayenne. Key Seafreight Ports:
Gayenne
St. Laurent
Guyana, Capital: Georgetown. Key Seafreight Ports:
Georgetown
Paraguay, Capital: Asuncion. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via Argentina.
Peru, Capital: Lima. Key Seafreight Ports:
Callao*
Matarani
Chimbote
Suriname, Capital: Paramaribo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Paramaribo
Uruguay, Capital: Montevideo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Montivideo
Venezuela, Capital: Caracas. Key Seafreight Ports:
Puerto Cabello*
La Guaira (Caracas)
Maraciaibo
Puerto la Cruz
WESTERN EUROPE, SCANDINAVIA & U.K
Andorra, Co-principality of France and Spain. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land locked country. Ocean freight via France and Spain.
Ausrtia, Capital: Vienna. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land locked country. Ocean freight via all major ports of Europe.
Belgium, Capital: Brussels. Key Seafreight Ports:
Antwerp*
Zeebrugge*
Ostend
Denmark, Capital: Copenhagen. Key Seafreight Ports:
Aarhus*
Copenhagen
Odense
Aalborg
Estonia, Capital: Tallin. Key Seafreight Ports:
Tallin
Kesklinna
Muuga
Harbour
Germany, Capital: Berlin. Key Seafreight Ports:
Hamburg*
Bremerhaven*
Rostock
Greece Piraeus
Finland, Capital: Helsinki. Key Seafreight Ports:
Helsinki
Kotka
Hanko
Hamina
Rauma
Oulu
France, Capital: Paris. Key Seafreight Ports:
Le Havre*
Brest
Calais
Dunkirk
Nantes
Bordeaux
Marseilles*
Corsica, a French Dependency: Bastia and Ajaccio
Iceland, Capital: Reykjavik. Key Seafreight Ports:
Reykjavik
Ireland, Capital: Dublin. Key Seafreight Ports:
Dublin*
Cork
Shannon
Estuary
Waterford
Italy, Capital: Rome. Key Seafreight Ports:
Gioia Tauro*
Genoa*
Livorno*
La Spezia*
Naples
Salerno
Venice
Ravenna
Brindisi
Sicily: Palermo and Sardinia's Augusta
Latvia, Capital: Riga. Key Seafreight Ports:
Riga
Liepaja
Venspils
Lithuania, Capital: Vilnus. Key Seafreight Ports:
Klaipeda
Luxemburg, Capital: Luxemburg. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land locked country. Ocean freight via Netherlands and Belgium
Monaco, Principality in the Southeast of France. Key Seafreight Ports:
Monaco
Netherlands (Holland), Capital: Amsterdam. (Seat of Governmen: The Hague). Key Seafreight Ports:
Rotterdam (the largest port of the world)*
Amsterdam
Norway, Capital: Oslo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Bergen
Oslo
Stavanger
Kristiansund
Trondheim
Portugal, Capital: Lisbon. Key Seafreight Ports:
Lisbon*
Leixoes
Setubal
Spain, Capital: Madrid. Key Seafreight Ports:
Barcelona*
Valencia*
Malaga
Algeciras*
Bilbao*
Santander
Gijon
Las Palmas*
'Gran Canaria Island
Sweden, Capital: Stockholm. Key Seafreight Ports:
Goteborg*
Stockholm
Gavle
Sundsvall
Trelleborg
Malmo
Switzerland, Capital: London. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land locked country. Ocean freight via all major ports of Europe.
United Kingdom, Capital: London. Key Seafreight Ports:
Felixtowe*
London/Thamesport*
Southampton*
Cardiff
Liverpool*
Tilbury*
Aberdeen
Glasgow
Belfast, Northern Ireland
EASTERN EUROPE
Albania, Capital: Tirana. Key Seafreight Ports:
Durres
Vlore
Armenia, Capital: Yerevan. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via Georgia and Turkey
Azerbaijan, Capital: Baku. Key Seafreight Ports:
Baku
Belarus, Capital: Minsk. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via Luthuania and Latvia
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Capital: Sarejevo. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via Croatia
Bulgaria, Capital: Sofia. Key Seafreight Ports:
Varna
Balchik
Nessebar
Crete (island of) Key Seafreight Ports:
Suda Bay
Canea
Croatia, Capital: Zagreb. Key Seafreight Ports:
Rijeka
Pula
Split
Ploce
Cyprus (Island of), Capital: Nicosia / Turkish and Greek possession. Seafreight Ports:
Kyrenia
Limassol
Czech Republic, Capital: Prague. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports of Western Europe
Georgia, Capital: Tbilisi. Key Seafreight Ports:
Batumi
Poti
Sukhumi
Greece, Capital: Athens. Key Seafreight Ports:
Piraeus*
Thessaloniki
Hungary, Capital: Budapest. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports of Western Europe
Malta, Capital: Valletta. Seafreight Ports:
Malta Freeport*
Macedonia, Capital: Skopje. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via Greece and Albania
Moldova, Capital: Kishinev (Chisinau). Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via Romania, Ukraine and Russia
Poland, Capital: Warsaw. Key Seafreight Ports:
Gdansk
Gdynia
Ustka
Darlowo
Romania, Capital: Bucharest. Key Seafreight Ports:
Constantza
Mangalia
Sulina
Russia, Capital: Moscow. Key Seafreight Ports:
St. Petersburg
Kaliningrad
Rostov
Volgograd
Port on Don
Novorosiysk
Archangelsk
Murmansk
Serbia, Capital: Belgrade. Key Seafreight Ports:
Kotor
Bar
Slovakia, Capital: Bratislava. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports of Western Europe
Slovenia, Capital: Ljubljana. Key Seafreight Ports:
Koper
Piran
Turkey, Capital: Ankara. Key Seafreight Ports:
Izmir*
Istanbul
Mersin
Ishkenderun
Izmit
Ukraine, Capital: Kiev. Key Seafreight Ports:
Odessa
Sevastopol
Yalta
Mariupol
Iliyechevsk
THE MIDDLE EAST
Bahrain, Capital: Al Manamah. Key Seafreight Ports:
Mina Sulman
Sitra
Iran, Capital: Tehran. Key Seafreight Ports:
Bandar Imman Khomeini
Bandar Shaheed Bahonar / Rejaee (formerly Bandar Abbass)
Khorramashahar
Abadan
Bandar Anazali
Iraq, Capital: Baghdad. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Beirut and Lebanon
Israel, Capital: Tel Aviv. Key Seafreight Ports:
Ashdod*
Haifa
Eilat
Hadera
Jordan, Capital: Amman. Key Seafreight Ports:
Aqaba
via Israeli ports
Kuwait, Capital: Kuwait. Key Seafreight Ports:
Kuwait
Shuaiba
Lebanon, Capital: Beirut. Key Seafreight Ports:
Beirut
Selaata
Tripoli
Oman, Capital: Muscat. Key Seafreight Ports:
Salalah*
Mina Raysut
Port Sultan Qaqboos
Qatar, Capital: Doha. Key Seafreight Ports:
Doha
Messai'eed
Saudi Arabia, Capital: Riyadh. Key Seafreight Ports:
Dammam*
Jeddah*
Jubail
Gizan
Yanbu/King Fahd Port
Syria, Capital: Damascus. Key Seafreight Ports:
Lattakia
Tartous
U.A.E - United Arab Emirates, Capital: Abu Dhabi. Key Seafreight Ports:
Dubai (Jebel Ali & Port Rashid)*
Fujairah*
Yemen, Capital: Tehran. Key Seafreight Ports:
Hodeidah
Mokha
Aden
Mukalla
AFRICA
Algeria, Capital: Algiers. Key Seafreight Ports:
Algiers
Annaba
Ghazaouet
Oran
Angola & Cabinda, Capital: Luanda. Key Seafreight Ports:
Luanda
Lobito
Nambibe
Benin, Capital: Porto Novo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Cotonou
Botswana, Capital: Gaborone. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in South Africa
Burkina Faso, Capital: Ouagadougou. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast
Burundi, Capital: Bujumbura. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Tanzania
Cameroon, Capital: Yaounde. Key Seafreight Ports:
Douala
Central African Republic, Capital: Bangui. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Cameroon
Chad, Capital: N'Diamena. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Cameroon
Congo (The), Capital: Brazzaville. Key Seafreight Ports:
Pointe Noire
Congo (The Democratic Repablic of), Capital: Kinshasha. Key Seafreight Ports:
Matadi
Boma
Banana
Djibouti, Capital: Djibouti. Key Seafreight Ports:
Djibouti
Egypt, Capital: Cairo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Alexandria
Port Said
Suez
Damietta
Equatorial Guinea, Capital: Malabo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Malabo (in Island)
Bata (on African continent)
Eritrea, Capital: Asmera. Key Seafreight Ports:
Assab
Massawa
Ethiopia, Capital: Addiss Ababa. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Djibouti
Gabon, Capital: Libreville. Key Seafreight Ports:
Libreville
Port Genti
Gambia, Capital: Banjul. Key Seafreight Ports:
Banjul
Ghana, Capital: Accra. Key Seafreight Ports:
Tema
Takoradi
Guinea, Capital: Conakry. Key Seafreight Ports:
Conakry
Kamsar
Guinea Bissau, Capital: Bissau. Key Seafreight Ports:
Bissau
Ivory Coast, Capital: Abijan. Key Seafreight Ports:
Abijan
San Pedro
Kenya, Capital: Nairobi. Key Seafreight Ports:
Mombasa
Lamu
Lesotho, Capital: Maseru. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in South Africa
Liberia, Capital: Monrovia. Key Seafreight Ports:
Monrovia
Buchanan
Cape Palmas
Greenville
Libya, Capital: Tripoli. Key Seafreight Ports:
Tripoli
Benghazi
Tobruk
Marsa el Brega
Madagascar (Island), Capital: Antananarivo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Toamasina
Mahajanga
Antsiranana
Malawi, Capital: Lilongwe. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Tanzania
Mali, Capital: Bamako. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Senegal and Gambia
Mauritania, Capital: Nouakchott. Key Seafreight Ports:
Nouakchott
Nouadhibou
Morocco, Capital: Rabat. Key Seafreight Ports:
Casablanca
Agadir
Tangier
Melilla (under Spanish jurisdication)
Mozambique, Capital: Maputo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Maputo
Beira
Nacala
Namibia, Capital: Windheoek. Key Seafreight Ports:
Walvis bay
Luderitz
Niger, Capital: Niameyt. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Nigeria
Nigeria, Capital: Abuja. Key Seafreight Ports:
Apapa (Lagos)
Port Harcourt
Rwanda, Capital: Kigali. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Tanzania
Senegal, Capital: Dakar. Key Seafreight Ports:
Dakar
Kaolack
Sierra Leone, Capital: Freetown. Key Seafreight Ports:
Freetown
Somalia, Capital: Mogadishu. Key Seafreight Ports:
Mogadishu
Berbera
Merca
South Africa, Capital: Pretoria (administrative); Cape Town (ligislative); Bloemfontein (juducial). Key Seafreight Ports:
Durban*
Cape Town
Port Elizabeth
East London
Sudan, Capital: Khartoum. Key Seafreight Ports:
Port Sudan
Suakin
Swaziland, Capital: Mbabane. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in South Africa
Tanzania, Capital: Dar Es Salaam. Key Seafreight Ports:
Dar es Salaam
Togo, Capital: Lome. Key Seafreight Ports:
Lome
Tunisia, Capital: Tunis. Key Seafreight Ports:
Tunis
Bizerta
Sfax
La Goelette
Uganda, Capital: Kampala. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Kenya
Western Sahara, Capital: None. (Territory contested by Morocco and Polisario Front). Key Seafreight Ports:
Ad Dakhla
Laayoune (El Aaiun)
Zambia, Capital: Luska. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Tanzania
Zimbabwe, Capital: Harare. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Tanzania
CENTRAL ASIA
Afganistan, Capital: Kabul. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports Russia, Pakistan or Iran
Krygystan, Capital: Bishkek. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports Russia, Pakistan or Iran
Tajikistan, Capital: Dushanbe. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports Russia, Pakistan or Iran
Turkmenistan, Capital: Ashkhabad. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports Russia, Pakistan or Iran
Uzbekistan, Capital: Tashkent. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports Russia, Pakistan or Iran
EAST ASIA
China, Capital: Beijing (Peking). Key Seafreight Ports:
Dalian*
Guangzhou*
Haikou (Hainan Island)
Ningbo*
Qingdao*
Shanghai*
Shenzhen*
Tianjin*
Xiamen*
Zhanjiang
Hong Kong*
Japan, Capital: Tokyo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Tokyo*
Yokohama*
Nagoya*
Osaka*
Kobe*
Hakata*
Kampuchea (Cambodia), Capital: Phnom-Penh. Key Seafreight Ports:
Phnom-Penh
Sihanoukville
Laos, Capital: Vientiane. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Thailand
Mayanmar (Burma), Capital: Rangoon. Key Seafreight Ports:
Yangon
Mawlamyine
Mongolia, Capital: Ulan Bataar. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Russia and China
North Korea, Capital: Pyongyang. Key Seafreight Ports:
Chongjin
Nampo
Wonsan
Russia (Asian), Capital: Moscow. Key Seafreight Ports:
Nakhodka
Vladivostok
Vostochyy
Uglrgorsk
Nevelsk (Sakhalin Island)
South Korea, Capital: Seoul. Key Seafreight Ports:
Pusan*
Inchon*
Kwangyang*
Taiwan, Capital: Taipei. Key Seafreight Ports:
Kaohsiung*
Keelung*
Taichung*
Thailand, Capital: Bangkok. Key Seafreight Ports:
Bangkok*
Laem Chabang*
Phuket (Malya Peninsula)
Vietnam, Capital: Hanoi. Key Seafreight Ports:
Ho Chi Minh City
Haiphong
Da Nang
Can Tho
INDIA SUB-CONTINENT
Bangladesh, Capital: Dhaka. Key Seafreight Ports:
Chittagong
Chalna
Bhutan, Capital: Thimphu. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Landlocked country.
India, Capital: New Dehli. Key Seafreight Ports:
Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva)*
Mumbai (Bombay)*
Calcutta
Madras
Maldives, Capital: Male. Key Seafreight Ports:
Male
Nepal, Capital: Kathmandu. Key Seafreight Ports:
None. Landlocked country.
Pakistan, Capital: Islamabad. Key Seafreight Ports:
Karachi
Port Qasim
Sri Lanka, Capital: Colombo. Key Seafreight Ports:
Colombo*
Galle
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Burnei (Sultanate), Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan. Key Seafreight Ports:
Maura Port
Indonesia, Capital: Jakarta. Key Seafreight Ports:
Jakarta / Tanjung Priok*
Tajung Perak (Jawa)
Palembang
Panhang
Kupang
Ujing Pandang
Sorong
Malaysia, Capital: Kuala Lumpur. Key Seafreight Ports:
Port Klang* (Selangor)
Penang* (Pengang)
Johor* (Johor/Malacca)
Kuching
Kota Kinabalu
Kuantan
Papua New Guinea, Capital: Port Moresby. Key Seafreight Ports:
Port Moresby
Philippines, Capital: Manila. Key Seafreight Ports:
Manila* (Luzon)
Davao (Mindanao)
Cebu (Cebu)
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
Australia, Capital: Canberra. Key Seafreight Ports:
Sidney*
Melbourne*
Port Hedlan
Fremantle
Newcastle
Brisbane
Hay Point
Port Walcott
Gladstone
Port Kembla
Adelaid
New Zealand, Capital: Wellington (North Island). Key Seafreight Ports:
Wellington
Auckland
New Plymouth
Bluff
Lyttelton
Otago
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