Port of Beirut
| Port of Beirut مرفأ بيروت |
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| Location | |
| Country | Lebanon |
| Location | Beirut |
| Coordinates | 33°54′10.62″N 35°31′4.04″E / 33.9029500°N 35.5177889°ECoordinates: 33°54′10.62″N 35°31′4.04″E / 33.9029500°N 35.5177889°E |
| Details | |
| Opened | 1887 |
| Operated by | Gestion et exploitation du port de Beyrouth (GEPB) |
| Owned by | Government of Lebanon |
| Type of harbor | Artificial |
| Size of harbor | 1.002 km2 |
| Size | 1.2 km2 |
| Available berths | 16 |
| Employees | 639 |
| General Manager | Hassan Koratiem |
| Statistics | |
| Vessel arrivals | 2,395 (2009) |
| Annual cargo tonnage | 5.8 million tonnes (2009) |
| Annual container volume | 994,601 TEU (2009) |
| Passenger traffic | 6,699 (2009) |
| Annual revenue | $163,486,146 (2009) |
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Website www.portofbeirut.com |
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The Port of Beirut (Arabic: مرفأ بيروت) is the main port in Lebanon located on the eastern part of the Saint George Bay on Beirut's northern Mediterranean coast, west of the Beirut River. It is one of the largest and busiest ports on the Eastern Mediterranean. The Port of Beirut and Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport are the main ports of entry into the country.
The port is operated and managed by the Gestion et exploitation du port de Beyrouth (GEPB), which is French for Port Authority of Beirut. Container terminal operations are subcontracted to a private consortium called the Beirut Container Terminal Consortium (BCTC).
Since the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990, the port has gone through a major updating and expansion program with the rehabilitation of existing port facilities, the construction of new administration buildings, and the construction of a new container terminal.
It's an important gateway for transporting freight to Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and the Gulf States.
The Port of Beirut has a total area of 1,200,000m2 and has 4 basins, 16 quays, and a new container terminal at quay 16 capable of handling 745,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) per year.
The Free Zone includes three industrial buildings with warehouses covering a total area of 32,400m2 and a commercial building with 46 duty-free shops covering an area of 11,200m2. In 2007, the Logistic Free Zone (LFZ) was established containing several logistics warehouses where goods can undergo transformations before being exported via land, sea, and air or imported into Lebanon.
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