Global GIS: Global Maritime Ports Database

Knowlegde of Maritime Port locations is critical to the planning of many ship activities. These Maritime Port locations are especially valuable when coupled with port facility information such as nominal port size, maximum vessel size, land transportation availability, channel depth, lift capability and the other attribute information contained in General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems' (GDAIS') Global Maritime Port Database.

The Global Maritime Ports Database is an ArcView point shapefile that gives the location, characteristics, known facilities, and available services of nearly 5,000 ports and shipping facilities and oil terminals throughout the world. The point shapefile can be brought into ArcView or any other (GIS) software that accepts shaepfile format (.shp).

GDAIS maintains the Global Maritime Port Database (GMPD) which is kept in GIS format to support ongoing research for customers. The GMPD has now been made available to the public.

The GMPD CD-ROM is constructed using ESRI’s GIS software. The CD-ROM includes basic GIS display and query software but can be used in almost any GIS capable software. The GMPD contains detailed attribution on each of the almost 5000 ports as well as annually updated country studies.

For more information, please contact us at Info@GlobalGISdata.com or 703-456-2884.