This article is about the facility for ships. For other uses, see Port (disambiguation).
The Port of New York and New Jersey grew from the original harbor at the convergence of the Hudson River and the East River at the Upper New York Bay.
Seaport, a 17th-century depiction by Claude Lorrain, 1638
Shanghai Port is the world's busiest container port
Port of Hamburg
The port of Piraeus
Port of Klaipėda
Port of Seattle
Port of Haifa, Israel
Port of Barcelona, one of Spain's largest ports
Port of Busan, Korea. Two Maersk vessels can be seen in the background.
Port of Montreal, Quebec.
The Port of Duluth-Superior, the largest freshwater port in the world
Cargo port in Hilo, Hawaii
A port is a maritime commercial facility which may comprise one or more wharves where ships may dock to load and discharge passengers and cargo. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, some ports, such as Hamburg, Manchester and Duluth, are many miles inland, with access from the sea via river or canal.
Today, by far the greatest growth in port development is in Asia, the continent with some of the world's largest and busiest ports, such as Singapore and the Chinese ports of Shangh