İskenderun Harbor is a

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harbor of Turkey. It is at in

İskenderun İskenderun (), historically known as Alexandretta (, ) and Scanderoon, is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is 247 km2, and its population is 251,682 (2022). It is on the Mediterranean coas ...

Hatay Province Hatay Province (, ) is the southernmost province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey. Its area is , and its population is 1,686,043 (2022). It is situated mostly outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province ...

History

The harbor project goes back to 1911 when the construction was planned by the

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administration of Haydarpaşa during the

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. But because of the

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difficulties, the project could not be realized. The inner harbor was constructed by the French government between 1918-1937 when the city of İskenderun was under French rule. After the proclamation of the

Hatay Republic Hatay State (; ; ), also known informally as the Republic of Hatay (), was a transitional nation that existed from 2 September 1938 to 29 June 1939, being located in the territory of the Sanjak of Alexandretta of the French Mandate of Syria. Th ...

and the merging to Turkey in 1939, the harbor was incorporated into the Turkish State Port Authorities. The harbor was rebuilt and enlarged in 1953, 1956, 1964 and 1972. On 20 December 2004 the infrastructure was handed over to Limak Company as part of the privatization program. A large fire broke out at the port on 6 February 2023 after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. The port received extensive structural damage and operations ceased in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake. Many shipping containers also toppled during the earthquake; the blaze was thought to have been started by a toppled container.

Technical details

The total area is . Number of berths is 8. Container berth water depth is . The total length of the berths is .İskenderun harbor technical features
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History

Technical details

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