The port of Busan has a surface area of 16,100,000 m2. Major facilities include a mooring wall of 8,012 m2, a loading and discharging area of 4,605 m2, which includes the external bulwark at 1,065 m2 and an embankment of 7, 527 m2. The port of Busan ranks as the oldest port in Korea and is number one of its kind in terms of the Korean Port Law.
On February 27, 1876 (Gojon 13) the Busan Port opened, and has been maintained through continuous renovations and developments for more than a century.
Busan Port
Following the completion of the 1st Pier in 1910, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Piers were constructed with loading facilities, shipping quays and bulwarks until 1945.
With the completion of the first stage development project executed in support of the IBRD lease from 1974, the Busan Port is now fully equipped with additional facilities that include the 5th Pier exclusively for containers and grains; the 7th Pier for scrap metals, mine ores, and coals; the 8th Pier for special cargo; and the 5th Pier for international passengers. In the meantime, the 1st and 2nd Piers for domestic coastal passengers have undergone a complete renovation.
All in all, the capacity of the port is large enough to accommodate more than 52 ships of various sizes, inclusive of three 50,000-ton ships at once, on top of which the total discharging capacity is 15,000,000 tons per year.
The second step of the development project, which began in 1978, has since been completed to extend the capacity of the 6th Pier for containers, as well as the 3rd, 4th, and 5th piers. With the completion of this stage, the Busan Port is now capable of handling the yearly discharging capacity of 15,000,000 tons to 18,600,000 tons, therefore increasing the yearly container discharging capacity of 200,000 to 400,000 tons.
In the meantime, however, the number of offshore ships is recorded to be more or less 7,895 ships per year. Most Korean export cargoes are shipped out of Busan Port, which has brought general operations to the brink of paralysis. In order to tackle this problem, a project has been executed to construct a container quay along the pier facing the northern offshore port, together with a bulwark. There are also plans to allocate budget from the central government and civilian capital to develop the harbor of Gamcheon as a supporting port. The Gamcheon Port handles mostly grains, scrap metal and the like. If the plan pushes through, this port will also operate as a shipbuilding and fishing base.
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