Every vessel that enters this channel
carries a city's livelihood.
We keep the channel deep, the berths ready,
and the cargo moving.
Established 1947 · Jurisdiction: Northern Trade Corridor · Berths 1–24
Every pilot boarding begins the same way:
with absolute accountability.
Before a vessel of any tonnage crosses the outer bar, a licensed port pilot is aboard. Our pilotage district covers 42 nautical miles of approach channel, tidal estuary, and inner harbor. Pre-dawn boardings, midnight departures — the watch never ends. In 2025, our pilots conducted 4,214 vessel movements with zero groundings and zero channel incidents.
The harbor is a working ecosystem.
We are its custodians.
Channel dredging, seawall maintenance, and navigation aid upkeep are not merely operational necessities — they are environmental obligations. Our continuous water quality monitoring network deploys 14 sensor buoys across the estuary, feeding real-time data to the Port Environmental Management System. Sediment displacement from dredging operations is tracked to the cubic metre, and all spoil is managed under Federal Environmental Protocol 7A.
38 million tonnes.
That is a city's supply chain.
The Northern Trade Corridor handles everything from containerised consumer goods arriving from East Asia to bulk grain exports bound for the Mediterranean. In the last fiscal year, 38.2 million tonnes of cargo cleared our quays — supporting an estimated 24,000 direct and indirect jobs across the region. Port dues, storage fees, and pilotage revenue are reinvested entirely into infrastructure and channel maintenance. No dividend is paid to any private shareholder.
14.2 metres at mean low water.
Maintained. Guaranteed.
Our channel depth of 14.2m at mean low water accommodates Post-Panamax vessels up to 366 metres LOA and 48m beam. The inner harbor basin is maintained at 12.8m alongside all 24 operational berths. Tidal windows extend effective depth to 15.6m for deep-draft bulk carriers. The dredging program runs on a four-cycle annual schedule, with emergency maintenance dredging deployable within 72 hours of any shoaling event. Navigation aids are inspected and certified every 90 days under IALA standards.
Request Berth Availability
Submit your vessel particulars and preferred arrival window. Our VTS team will confirm berth assignment within 4 working hours. All submissions are handled under the Port Authority's Vessel Traffic Services protocol.
Port Tariff Schedule
2026 tariff tables covering port dues, pilotage, towage, berth hire, storage, and dwell-time fees. Updated quarterly.