Almeria Port (port code: ESLEI) is a medium-sized port in Spain. It is situated on the southeast coast of Spain in the Gulf of Almeria, midway between Malaga and Cartagena.
The port is protected by the west mole which is approximately 1,800 meters in length. It offers facilities for handling break bulk, liquid, and dry bulk.
The port handles approximately 1.3 million tons of cargo and 1 million passengers annually. The main exports leaving this port include cement, clinker, bentonite, salt and gypsum in bulk, fruit and vegetables, wine, chemical products, steel and iron products, food products, paper and paste, building materials, machine parts, automobile parts and other general cargo. The principal imports entering this port are fertilisers, cement, clinker, pet coke, marble, perlite and peat in bulk, fruit and vegetables, canned goods, wine, steel and iron products, food products, paper and paste, woods, frozen fish, building materials, machine parts, other liquid and general cargo.
The types of vessels regularly calling at this port are fishing vessels, accounting for about 35%; cargo vessels, taking up around 23.5%; and sailing vessels, taking a proportion of 20%. The maximum length of the vessels recorded to having entered this port is 247 meters. The maximum draught is 9 meters. The maximum deadweight is 85,610t.