Facilities
The Port of Haifa contains many cargo terminals, and is capable of servicing many ships at once. A railroad freight terminal is located inside the port and is used for transporting goods across the country, while a passenger rail station (Haifa Center HaShmona) is located nearby the passenger terminal. The port also features a fishing wharf, a yacht club, a sports marina, and a chemical terminal. In 2012, the port processed about 24 million tons of cargo including 1.37 million TEUs, as well as 293,080 passengers. The port opened the first phase in the "Carmel Port" expansion program in 2010 that involved the construction of a new cargo terminal which includes a 700m long wharf capable of handling 9,200 TEU container ships (of max 15.5m draft) as well as the opening of a secondary 250m wharf plus adjacent support and storage areas. The new facilities will expand the port's annual container handling capacity by 500,000 TEU. Construction of this new terminal cost NIS1.8 billion (appx. US$500 million) and took five years to complete.
The Port maintains facilities for the United States Sixth Fleet.
On 4 January 2013, the MSC Chicago docked at the port's Carmel terminal, making it the largest container ship ever to visit Haifa. The MSC Chicago has a capacity of 9,200 containers. The previous record ship visit was the MSC Maeva (capacity of 8040 containers) which had visited two months prior.
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