A pirate's life for me...

August 27, 2009 8:08 AM

I need an authoritative listing of the world's seaports (by country) or failing that, a list of the number of seaports by country. Exhaustive searching has only turned up inaccurate/incomplete lists and I can't seem to find one on the IMO website either. Any ideas?
posted by B-squared to grab bag (6 comments total)

Have you tried portaid.com?
posted by Pollomacho at 8:16 AM on August 27

Does Wikipedia help here?
posted by iamkimiam at 8:18 AM on August 27

Unfortunately, Wikipedia doesn't help. Portaid looks OK, but I would have to supplement it with non-container ports. I'm guessing, though not certain, that these ports are all deep water/Panamax ports. I'm also looking for ports that say, a pleasure yacht could use.
posted by B-squared at 9:10 AM on August 27

World Port Source.
posted by Kattullus at 9:14 AM on August 27

World Port Source grabs a lot of its information from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's
World Port Index, which has even more ports listed.
posted by Kattullus at 9:20 AM on August 27

Kattullus, I thank you.
posted by B-squared at 10:51 AM on August 27