Mina Salman Port
Position:
Lat: 26^o 12.10' N
Long: 050^o 36.90' E

Mina Salman Port, named after His Majesty the King's Grand Father Shaikh Salman Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, is currently the main port of Bahrain for General Cargo and Containers. This port can handle dry cargoes (conventional and containers) with an average annual volume of 2.5 million tonnes. Mina Salman Port was opened in 1962, since that time the Government made determined efforts to modernize and improve the efficiency and capacity of Mina Salman. The port comprises 15 berths, two of them are container berths, and the rest are conventional cargo berths which can accommodate different sizes of ships with different draughts varying between 5.5 to 10 meters. A small Ro-Ro ramp is available for vessels up to 15.5 meters wide.

More than 75 per cent of Mina Salman's cargo is containerized involving volumes in excess of 1.5 million tonnes a year. Mina Salman port provides round the clock service. The containers are handled at a terminal along 600 meters of quayside, much of it arriving in feeder vessels on behalf of deep-sea container lines. Four 30-40 tonnes gantry cranes serve the two berths, which allow two 300-meter vessels with draughts of up to 10.5 meters to be worked simultaneously. Mina Salman was once acknowledged as one of the most modern and efficient ports in the Gulf.

ALBA operates a plant producing aluminium ingots from imported raw material (i.e. Alumina & coke). ALBA owns and operates two berths, one for the import of raw material which can accommodate ships up to 35,000 dwt or 244 meters in length and 10.7 meter draught.

The other berth is used for export, although most exports are shipped in containers via the Mina Salman terminals.

For vessels bound for ALBA jetties, Mina Salman pilots will decide on the maneuvering operations.

GIIC operates a plant producing iron pellets from imported ores. GIIC has one jetty with an off-lying dolphin providing two berths, the Eastern berth (GIIC East) being utilized for off-loading iron ore, whilst the Western side (GIIC West) is used for loading pellets. Under normal circumstances, berthing and unberthing operations are conducted on a 24 hour basis at the discretion of Mina Salman pilots.

The area surrounding the jetty and its approaches have been dredged for deep draft vessels of up to 12.8 meter and 100,000 tonnes deadweight with a maximum length of ships being 290 meters. In the loading side of the jetty, the maximum deadweight is 60,000 tonnes and length is 240 meters. Lat: 26o 09.40' N
Long: 050o 40.50' E

ASRY is an Arab industrial venture and considered the first major ship repair facility in the Arabian Gulf.

Since its existence, ASRY has operated a repair yard with a 500,000 DWT graving dock, two floating docks with capacities of 120,000 and 80,000 dwt were added to the yard's dry-dock in late 1992, plus four VLCC repair berths adjacent to the yard. With the available present repair facilities, ASRY now is fully able to handle a big range of vessels, i.e. ULCC, VLCC, Product Carriers, Chemical Carriers, Bulk Carriers, Container Ships, General Cargo Ships, Reefers, Offshore Drilling Unites, Dredgers, Barges, and other small crafts.

Muharraq Port:
Position:
Lat: 26^o 14.60' N
Long: 050^o 37.10' E