Koblenz Port (port code: DECOB / DEKOB) is the central port of call on the Middle Rhine and the last high and low water independent station before the Rhenish low mountain range and the Upper Rhine. It is located 70 kilometers south of Bonn, at the confluence of the rivers Mosel and Rhine.
The preferred location on the banks of two rivers made the port an important traffic junction since it was founded by the Romans more than 2000 years ago. It offers facilities for handling break bulk, container, liquid and dry bulk. The Three Peaks Container Terminal of this port has the largest container bridge on the Rhine and trades approximately 43,400 containers of more than one million tons per year (2003).
The types of vessels regularly calling at this port are cargo vessels, accounting for about 63%, and tankers, taking up around 23%. The maximum length of the vessels recorded to having entered this port is 187 meters. The maximum draught is 5.1 meters. The maximum deadweight is 6,500t.