Shuaiba Port

This port is located in Al-ahmadi area about 45 kilometers south of Kuwait city at latitude 29 2 minutes and 26 seconds north, and longitude 48 10 minutes 56 seconds east.

The port contains berths for commercial goods and others for containers and a pier for petroleum products currently managed by the Kuwait national petroleum company. shuaiba port encompasses 20berths with a total length of 4068 meters and depths ranging from 7.5 to 14 meters, including 4 berths numbers 15,16,17,18.

Dedicated to container handling. These four berths are equipped with 7 container gantry cranes of 56 tons capacity for each. the oil pier has a water depth of 16 meters. two small sea craft and barge basins are located at the port. The first basin is 4 meters deep and comprises three berths with 175, 200, and 100 meters long. the second basin is 6 meters deep and compromises 4 berths with 157, 211, 250 and 278.

The port has a conveyor belt for transporting petrochemical industries company exports from the factory to ships through berths No. 1 and 2 as well as conveyor belt for transporting the products of Kuwait national petroleum company of sulfur from loading area to berth No. 6 and another belt for transferring petroleum coke to berth No. 14.

Shuaiba container terminal

Shuaiba container terminal is considered one of the modern and developed container terminals in the Arabian gulf region with an area of 310 thousand square meters and consists of four berths for receiving and handling container and ro-ro ships with total length of 880 meters and 14 meters depth receiving vessels of up to 13 meters draft. The terminal has a stacking yard outside the port of receiving empty containers before being transported to the terminal and then loaded on ships. the area of the stacking yard is approximately 97 thousand square meters. there are also two warehouses for LCL containers with a total area of 14,500 square meters there is an area inside the terminal for storing refrigerated containers filled with foodstuffs. This area is equipped with electrical feeding points. The terminal is equipped with 20rubber tired gantries and 19 empty container handlers. The terminal also has a container custom inspection platform.