---
id: "port"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["shipping", "transport", "geo"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 55
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/port"
---

# Port (place of loading or unloading) (`port`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Name of the port where goods or passengers are loaded or unloaded, as written in customs declarations, bills of lading and trade statistics, for example the port of loading or the port of unloading. In trade data the column often also holds airports, land border points and inland depots. The coded form of such places is the UN/LOCODE (unlocode). Not a network port number (port_number).

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Shipping and delivery (shipping), Transportation (transport), Geographic identifiers (geo)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Examples

- `Chittagong` — Seaport in Bangladesh
- `Dhaka` — City used as the place of unloading for air and inland cargo

## Translations

- ru: Порт (место погрузки или выгрузки)
- fr: Port (lieu de chargement ou de déchargement)

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44782>

## Quality

Score 55/100. Missing: regexp, negative example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/port.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/shipping/port.yaml>