There are Rotterdam, Port of Hamburg, Port of Antwerp, Felixstowe, Port of Southampton, Port of Bremen, Bordeaux,Genoa, Barcelona, Nantes and so on.
1, Rotterdam (Rotterdam)? Port Code: NLROT
Latitude and longitude: (latitude 51 ° 55' North, longitude 4 ° 29' East)
The Netherlands second largest city, Europe's first large port, the Asia-Europe Continental Bridge, the West Bridgehead (East Bridgehead is the city of Lianyungang, China), is located in Europe, the Rhine River and the Maas River at the confluence. It is the largest seaport in Europe, and until recently was even the largest seaport in the world. The entire city spreads out on both sides of the Maas River, about 25 kilometers from the North Sea, with which it is connected by a new waterway.
Port nature: Seaport, base port ? Climate: Temperate maritime climate
2. Port of Hamburg (HAMBURG) ? Port Code: DEHAM
Latitude and longitude: 53"33'N, 009''59'E
Located in: northern Germany, the Elbe (ELBE) River downstream of the right bank, from the mouth of the sea is about 76n mile, bordering on the Heilgoland (HELGOLANDER) within the Bay, is Germany's largest port, is also Europe's second largest container port.
Port nature: seaport, river port, free port, basic (CM)
Climate: a temperate maritime climate, more westerly winds throughout the year, mild and humid, more winter rain.
3, Antwerp port (ANTWERP)? Port Code: BEANT
Latitude and longitude: 51 degrees 14 minutes N, 004 degrees 23 minutes E
Belgium's largest seaport, Europe's third largest port. Located in the lower reaches of the Scheldt River, 68-89 kilometers from the mouth of the river . The total area of the port is 106.33 million square meters, of which 13.15 million square meters of water, the total length of the port shoreline 99 km, cargo throughput of nearly 100 million tons, is ranked Rotterdam Port and Marseille Port after the European port.
Port nature: river port, with bonded warehouses, basic port (C, M)? Climate: temperate maritime climate
4, Felixstowe (FELIXSTOWE)? Port Code: GBFEL
Latitude and longitude: 51 degrees 57 minutes N 001 degrees 21 minutes E
Located on the southeast coast of Britain's Orwell (ORWELL) River and Stow (STOUR) River confluence at the mouth, from Ipswich (IPSWICH) about 18km, is the largest container port in the United Kingdom, as early as in July 1967 became the British The first specialized container port. The port is the United Kingdom - the Atlantic route container ship loading and unloading terminals.
Port nature: Gulf port, the basic port (C)? Climate: temperate maritime climate
5, Bremerhaven (BREMEN)? Port Code: DEBRE
Located in northwest Germany, the lower reaches of the Weser River, about 68nmile from the mouth of the sea, is the second largest port in Germany, but also Europe's important transshipment seaport, the port from the airport is about 6km. the port began to see the end of the 8th century in the record, when it was a commercial center, but also "Hanseatic League" one of the members. It was also a member of the "Hanseatic League".
Climate: Temperate maritime
Extended information:
Port is located in the sea, rivers, rivers, lakes, reservoirs along the coast, with waterway intermodal transport equipment and conditions for the safe entry and exit of the ship and berthing of the transportation hub, is the land and water transportation rally and hub, industrial and agricultural products and foreign trade import and export of materials distribution, ship berthing, loading and unloading of goods, The place where ships berth, load and unload cargo, load and unload passengers, and replenish supplies.
Ports have always played an important role in a country's economic development. Transportation connects the world, and ports are an important part of that transportation. Developed countries in the world generally have their own coastline and a more complete function of the port. The function of the port can be summarized as the following four aspects:
1, logistics service function. Ports should first of all for ships, cars, trains, airplanes, goods, containers to provide transit, loading and unloading and warehousing and other integrated logistics services, especially to improve multimodal transportation and circulation processing logistics services.
2, information service function. Modern ports should not only provide users with market decision-making information and its counseling, but also to build a value-added services network of electronic data interchange (EDI) system to provide customers with order management, supply chain control and other logistics services.
3, commercial function. The existence of the port is both the exchange of goods and the existence of domestic and foreign trade is a prerequisite, but also to promote their development. Modern ports should provide users with convenient transportation, commerce and financial services, such as agency, insurance, financing, freight forwarding, shipping agency, customs clearance and so on.
4, industrial functions. The establishment of modern logistics needs a platform with the function of integrating the elements of productivity, ports as the domestic market and the international market connection point, has been realized from the traditional flow of goods to the flow of people, goods, business, capital, technology, information flow of the overall circulation of the big, is the gathering point of goods, capital, technology, talent, information.
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