Port Port A port is a maritime commercial facility which may comprise one or more wharves where ships may dock to load and discharge passengers and cargo. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, some ports, such as Hamburg, Manchester and Duluth, are many miles inland, with access from the sea via river or canal. Today, by far the greatest growth in port development is in Asia, the continent with some of the world's largest and busiest ports, such as Singapore and the Chinese ports of Shanghai and Ningbo-Zhoushan. Whenever ancient civilisations engaged in maritime trade, they tended to
Port of Memphis the 5 Class 1 railroads in the city or by Road via I-40, or Air using FedEx. In the Early 1900s the Port was an idea brought up because of the easy access to the river and the transportation boom created by World War I and World War II. Port of Memphis The Port of Memphis is an active port in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. It is located on President's Island which is a peninsula. It is the second largest inland port on the shallow draft portion of the Mississippi River, and the 4th largest inland Port in the United