The Twenty-Sixth Edition of Pub 150, World Port Index, cancels the previous edition of Pub 150. This publication gives the location, characteristics, known facilities, and available services of a great many ports and shipping facilities and oil terminals throughout the world. The selection of these places is based on criteria established by this Agency. They are not random choices. The applicable chart and Sailing Directions is given for each place listed. The edition contains information available to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agencyup to 19 December 2015, including Notice to Mariners No. 51 of 2015.

In order to present such a large amount of diversified data in a single volume of convenient size, a simplecode is used to indicate certain types of information. The code symbols are explained at the top of each page of text.

 IMPA Code: 370759 (37 07 59)