Mina Salman Port, named after His Majesty the King's Grand Father Shaikh Salman Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa. Mina Salman Port 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 open 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 15meters 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 container lines (mothership). 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. |
