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Harbors and ports are often confused. A port is a man-made coastal or riverine facility where boats and ships can load and unload. It may consist of quays, wharfs, jetties, piers and slipways with cranes or ramps. A port may have magazine buildings or warehouses for storage of goods and a transport system, such railway, road transport or pipeline transport facilities for relaying goods inland.
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Harbors and ports are often confused. A port is a man-made coastal or riverine facility where boats and ships can load and unload. It may consist of quays, wharfs, jetties, piers and slipways with cranes or ramps. A port may have magazine buildings or warehouses for storage of goods and a transport system, such railway, road transport or pipeline transport facilities for relaying goods inland.
Artificial harbors
Artificial harbors are frequently built for use as ports. The largest artificially created harbor is in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Natural harbors
Ice-free harbors
main: Ice-free port For harbors near the poles, being ice-free is an important advantage, ideally all-year round. Examples are Murmansk (Russia), Petsamo (Russia, formerly Finland), Hammerfest, Vardø, and Prince Rupert (Canada). The southern-most harbor, at Antarctica's Winter Quarters Bay (77°50′S), presents a potentially ice-free harbor, dependent on summer pack ice conditions.
Temporary harbors
image:St. John's, NFLD harbour.jpg
Sometimes a harbor is needed where one isn't available due to damage, such as in times of war. In this case a temporary harbor may be built and transported in pieces to the location. The most notable of these were the two Mulberry harbours used during the D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War II.
Tidal harbor
A tidal harbor is a type of harbor that can only be entered or exited at certain tidal levels.
Important harbors
Although the world's busiest port is a hotly contested title, in 2006 the world's busiest harbor by cargo tonnage was the Port of Shanghai.
The following are large natural harbors:
- Baltimore's Inner Harbor, Maryland, United States
- Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States
- Bridgetown, Barbados
- Cartagena, Colombia
- Charleston, South Carolina, United States
- Cork Harbour, Ireland
- Duluth, Minnesota, United States
- Durban, South Africa
- Falmouth, Cornwall, England
- Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Freetown Harbour, Sierra Leone
- Golden Horn, Istanbul, Turkey
- Gothenburg, Sweden
- Grand Harbour, Malta
- Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia Canada
- Hamburg Harbour, Germany
- Kingston, Jamaica
- Kobe Harbour, Kobe, Japan
- Kochi, India
- Mahon, Minorca, Spain
- Manila Bay, Philippines
- Milford Haven, Wales
- Montevideo, Uruguay
- Mumbai, India
- New York Harbor, United States
- Oslofjord, Norway
- Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Plymouth Sound, Devon, England
- Poole Harbour, Dorset, England
- Port Jackson, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia
- Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara Bay, Brazil
- Salvador, Brazil
- San Diego Bay, San Diego, California, United States
- San Francisco Bay, California, United States
- Tokyo Bay, Tokyo, Japan
- Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
- Vancouver, Canada
- Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
- Wellington Harbour, New Zealand
- Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
