Yemen Ports Authority or Yemen Gulf of Aden Ports Corporation is a government corporation that governs and manages the port

Port

A port is a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbors where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land....

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Yemen

The Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east....

, including principally the port of Aden

Aden

Aden is a seaport city in Yemen, located by the eastern approach to the Red Sea , some 170 kilometres east of Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately 800,000. Aden's ancient, natural harbour lies in the crater of an extinct volcano which now forms a peninsula, joined to the mainland by a...

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Port of Aden

Geographically the port consists of three areas: the outer harbour which provides anchorage

Anchor

An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, that is used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the vessel from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ancora, which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα .Anchors can either be temporary or permanent...

, the oil harbor and the inner harbor.

Usage zones at Aden consist of:

• Ma'alla Multipurpose and Container Terminal
• Aden Container Terminal
• Oil Harbour
• Fishing Harbour

The Aden Refinery Company is located at the oil harbor at Aden port; its operations include transshipment of petroleum product

Petroleum product

Petroleum products are useful materials derived from crude oil as it is processed in oil refineries.According to crude oil composition and demand, refineries can produce different shares of petroleum products. The largest share of oil products is used as energy carriers: various grades of fuel...

s, oil refining and marine fuel station.

See also

• Economy of Yemen
  Economy of Yemen
  At the time of unification, South Yemen and North Yemen had vastly different but equally struggling underdeveloped economic systems. Since unification, the economy has been forced to sustain the consequences of Yemen’s support for Iraq during the 1990–91 Persian Gulf War: Saudi Arabia expelled...
  
  
• Government of Yemen
• Gulf of Aden
  Gulf of Aden
  The Gulf of Aden is located in the Arabian Sea between Yemen, on the south coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and Somalia in the Horn of Africa. In the northwest, it connects with the Red Sea through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, which is about 20 miles wide....
  
  
• Port authority
  Port authority
  In Canada and the United States a port authority is a governmental or quasi-governmental public authority for a special-purpose district usually formed by a legislative body to operate ports and other transportation infrastructure.Port authorities are usually governed by boards or...
  
  
• Port operator
  Port operator
  A port operator is port authority or company that contracts with the port authority to move cargo through a port at a contracted minimum level of productivity...
  
  
• Transport in Yemen
  Transport in Yemen
  As a direct consequence of the country’s poverty, Yemen compares unfavorably with its Middle Eastern neighbors in terms of transportation infrastructure and communications network. Roads are generally poor, although several projects are planned to upgrade the system...
  
  

External links

• Port of Aden official site
• Aden Refinery Company