Transport in Iceland - Sea

Sea

The major harbours in Iceland are:

  • Akureyri
  • Hornafjördur
  • Ísafjörður
  • Keflavík
  • Raufarhöfn
  • Reykjavík
  • Seyðisfjörður
  • Straumsvík
  • Vestmannaeyjar

Merchant marine:
total: 3 ships (with a volume of 1,000 gross register tons (GRT) or over) totaling 13,085 GRT/16,938 metric tons deadweight (DWT)
ships by type: chemical tanker 1, container ship 1, petroleum tanker 1 (1999 est.)

Transport ferries: The only habitable islands around Iceland are supplied and infrastructurally connected with the mainland via ferries which run regularly. Those islands are:

  • Vestmannaeyjar The largest and most populated island.
  • Hrísey In the middle of Eyjafjörður in northern Iceland.
  • Grímsey An island in the far-north, the northernmost part of Iceland.

Those ferries are considered part of the infrastructure system such as roads, and are therefore run by Vegagerðin like the roads.

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