Overview:

Port Of Balboa (Spanish: Puerto de Balboa) is a transit port on the Panama Canal and a trading port in Panama City. Located at the south entrance of the canal, it is only 3 kilometers away from the center of Panama City to the east. It is 433 nautical miles from the east port of Cristobal District, Hebeikou in the north. 7690 nautical miles from Sydney in the southwest, 6510 kilometers from Auckland Port in New Zealand, 4680 nautical miles from Horununu, Hawaii in the northwest, 9,000 nautical miles from Shanghai Port, and 3250 nautical miles from San Francisco; there are 3 jetties extending to the canal in the harbor basin, each with 4 berths , For oil tankers or bulk carriers for shipment. The middle part of the east bank is where the ship repair yard is located, which occupies piers 8-14; the 7 berths of the 4th, 6th and 7th berths in the south of the shipyard and the 10 berths of the 15th, 16th and 18th piers in the north of the shipyard are all for ocean-going vessels For cargo loading and unloading, transshipment, and supplementary supplies, the 3 berths at Pier 7 are container terminals . The port has more than 30 berths for ocean-going vessels with a water depth of 9.4-12.4 meters. It is a well-equipped port .

Balboa Port is located at the Pacific exit of the Panama Canal on the southern coast of Panama. It is on the north side of the Gulf of Panama. It is Panama’s second largest port and is only away from Panama City. 3km. There is a Panama Railway to the port of Colon. Balboa is the administrative center of the Panama Canal Zone and one of the air transportation centers in Latin America. The port is about 32km away from TOCUMENT International Airport , with more than 100 aircraft taking off and landing every day.

Balboa port has a tropical rainforest climate with prevailing westerly winds. The annual average temperature is 19～34℃. The annual average rainfall is about 1700mm, and the rainy season is from April to December each year. Average tide height: 4.93m for spring tide and 1.09m for neap tide. There are 12 main berths in the port area, with a coastline of 2324m and a maximum water depth of 13.2m. Loading and unloading equipment includes various shore cranes, truck cranes, floating cranes, container cranes, bulk cargo conveyors, suction pipe pumps, and tugs. Among them, the maximum lifting capacity of container cranes is 32 tons, the shore crane is 40 tons, and the floating cranes are moored in Gansu. GAMBOA has a maximum lifting capacity of 250 tons. The terminal is the largest reliable ship of 40,000 dwt. The water depth of the large ship anchorage reaches 20m. In 1992, the container throughput was 16,000 TEU. The main export goods were cane sugar, coffee, petroleum products, bananas and seafood, etc. The imported goods mainly included food, machinery, crude oil, transportation equipment and industrial products.