Marsaxlokk

     The port OF Marsaxlokk, on THE southeast coast OF Marsaxlokk，Ll-bajja Ta’ , is THE southernmost OF Malta's seaports. It is one OF THE country's three major seaports, it is a transit port for container transport in the Mediterranean region.

     The port is a subtropical Mediterranean climate, the prevalence of northwest wind. The annual mean temperature is about 37 ° C and 6 ° C respectively. The annual average rainfall is about 600mm. Mean tidal range: 0.5 m at high tide and 0.4 m at low tide. The shoreline of the main berth is about 1km long and the maximum water depth is 18m. The handling equipment includes various shore cranes, Gantry crane bay cranes and container cranes. The container terminal yard has an area of 150,000 m? , which can be stacked up to 2,712 containers. It also has the special equipment of super-panama type loading and unloading bridge and refrigerated container. The oil terminal can hold 120,000 DWT tankers, the storage capacity of petroleum products is 174,000 m and the hourly loading and unloading capacity is 2,000 m. The main import goods for grain, oil and industrial raw materials, such as exports of goods mainly clothing, cotton textiles, shoes and groceries. In 1994, container throughput reached 383,000 TEU, an increase of 32.9 per cent over 1993, of which 91 per cent was transhipment cargo. Work can be arranged if necessary during the holidays, but at a special rate. Hong Kong by the 62 Free Port Company (MFC) to monitor the development of the port, the future of container phase transshipment is still the business center of the port. The government will invest the largest amount of money in the construction of the second transhipment container terminal, which is expected to be completed in 1996 and will have a container handling capacity of 1 million TEU, surpassing that of Valletta, it became the largest hub port in the Mediterranean.