Important Harbors
Although the world's busiest port is a hotly contested title, in 2006 the world's busiest harbour by cargo tonnage was the Port of Shanghai.
The following are large natural harbours:
- Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, India
- Algeciras, Spain
- Hai Phong Port, Haiphong, Vietnam
- Amsterdam, Port of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Antwerp, Port of Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium
- Baltimore's Inner Harbor, Maryland, United States
- Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States
- Bremerhaven, Germany
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Cartagena, Colombia
- Charleston, South Carolina, United States
- Port of Chittagong,Chittagong City, Bangladesh
- Cork Harbour, Ireland
- Duluth, Minnesota, United States
- Durban, South Africa
- Falmouth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
- Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Freetown Harbour, Sierra Leone
- Golden Horn, Istanbul, Turkey
- Izmir's Inner Harbour, Izmir, Turkey
- Gothenburg, Sweden
- Grand Harbour, Malta
- Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Hamburg Harbour, Germany
- Hampton Roads, Norfolk, Virginia, United States
- Havana Harbor
- Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
- Kingston, Jamaica
- Kobe Harbour, Kobe, Japan
- Kochi, India
- Lushunkou, Dalian, China
- Mahon, Minorca, Spain
- Manila Bay, Philippines
- Milford Haven, Wales, United Kingdom
- Montevideo, Uruguay
- Mumbai, India
- Nassau, Bahamas
- New York Harbor, United States
- Oslofjord, Norway
- Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
- Piraeus, Attiki, Greece
- Plymouth Sound, Devon, England, United Kingdom
- Poole Harbour, Dorset, England, United Kingdom
- Port Jackson, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Port of Tyne, Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom
- Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia
- Portland Harbor, Casco Bay, Maine, United States
- Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara Bay, Brazil
- Rotterdam, Port of Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Salvador, Brazil
- San Diego Bay, San Diego, California, United States
- San Francisco Bay, California, United States
- Sankt Petersburg, Russia
- Sevastopol Harbour, Sevastopol, Ukraine
- Subic Bay, Zambales, Philippines
- Tanger-Med, Tangier, Morocco
- Tauranga Harbour, Tauranga, New Zealand
- Tokyo Bay, Tokyo, Japan
- Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
- Vancouver, Canada
- Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
- Chennai port, India
- Vizhinjam, India
- Wellington Harbour, New Zealand
- Willemstad, Curaçao
Other notable harbours include:
- Belém, Brazil
- Kahului, Hawaii, United States
- Kaipara Harbour, New Zealand
- Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Keelung, Taiwan
- Kilindini Harbour, Kenya
- Keppel Harbour, Singapore
- Manukau Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand
- New Haven Harbor, Connecticut, United States
- Port of Bruges-Zeebrugge, Flanders, Belgium
- Port of Genoa, Italy
- Portland Harbour, Dorset, England, United Kingdom
- Rades, Tunisia
- Trondheim, Norway
- Port of Gdańsk, Poland
- Port of Szczecin, Poland
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