A port is a sheltered place along the sea or river where boats can stop safely and perform loading/unloading operations. It consists of breakwaters to protect berths from waves, access channels, signs, docks, and harbors for boats to wait safely. The land area contains facilities to support goods operations, storage, and regulate maritime-terrestrial flows. A port sometimes hosts basic industries like steel mills or shipyards. It provides boat services like towing and fueling, merchandise services like customs and freight, and land transport services. Special types of ports include leisure ports for recreational boats, shipyards for vessel construction and repair, and fishing ports for unloading and selling perishable fish goods.

1. WHAT IS A PORT?

2. WHICH IT IS A PORT
• Place sheltered from the wind to the sea or a river where boats can stop and remain
safe , with facilities to make repairs or perform loading and unloading operations .
The port is , by extension, that intended space and especially oriented goods flow ,
characters, information or provide shelter and security than those vessels or vessels
responsible for carrying out these tasks one

3. THE SEA ÁREA?
• Designed the ship, and where the breakwaters that protect berths around the
outside waves, mainly consisting of the levees have ; Access works to facilitate
access to the harbor boat in the conditions of access security , ensuring its handling,
proper width and depth. These are the signs (radar, lights, beacons , beacons , buoys
, etc. ) , the channeling dikes , dredging canals , locks ; Spaces funding ( harbors )
with the function of keeping the boat in calm waters , without obstructing traffic ,
waiting for his turn to berth at the docks ; and the docks that form the surface of
sheltered waters suitable for permanence and Operation of Ships ( tidal or flotation ,
or as they become subject to tidal action ) .

4. THE LAND A ROUND?
• mainly aimed at the goods, including the surface of the ground operation consisting
of springs , in addition to facilitate docking and mooring of boats , they support the
provisional tools and stockpiling of goods; deposits and also to adapt a space for
goods, serve to regulate the maritime -terrestrial flows.

5. SETTLEMENT AREA OF BASIC INDUSTRIES?
• Occasionally it can be located in an area of settlement ports of basic industries :
steel mills , shipyards , petrochemical , refineries , etc. In some cases it has been
necessary to create ports exclusively for your service, as the case of the outer harbor
of Huelva , focused on the petrochemical industry.

6. SERVICES PROVIDED

7. • Boat Services :Among the services the ship include: the slogan , pilotage , towing,
provisioning, fueling ( in English, bunkering ) , downloading " sloop " ( waste tank
washing ) , garbage collection , repairs and maintenance , etc.
Merchandise Services: For services to the commodity include: the slogan , stevedoring,
customs , health , surveillance , commercial services of freight forwarders , consignees
and other agents
Land transport services: Land transport services are representative , transshipment
activities and handling of goods .
Other services: Finally, the section on various services, among which are insurance,
banking , mercantile , the media, etc.

8. SPECIAL TYPES OF PORT.

9. LEISURE PORT, SPORTS PORT
• The marinas are those specifically aimed at shelter for about longer stay or provide
a basis for recreational boats , which by its irregular use should spend extended
stays in mooring area or in dry dock. To cover the needs of these ports , often have
different characteristics compared to traditional merchant ports and dock area , dry
dock , dockyards or the existence of restaurants, shops and other services aimed at
a clientele of true purchasing power

10. SHIPYARD
• Ports or parts of ports that are especially responsible for the construction or repair
of vessels are private shipyards such facilities . Usually representative of the
existence of large shipyard cranes, dry docks or launch various areas for ships of
different sizes

11. COMMERCIAL FISHING
• Those in charge of handling perishable and especially those for fish unloading
goods, fishing ports, buildings contain facilities oriented to the sale of these goods ,
auctions . These ports , being the place of origin for the market entry of these
products must be provided with the logistical and commercial infrastructure to
distribute to areas of consum