Callao Port is Peru’s most important trade port, located just 12 kilometers from Lima and adjacent to other major Peruvian ports. Metals, fish meals, fish oil, and minerals are exported from the port, which is sheltered by a natural harbor in the Pacific. Wheat, equipment, and timber are among the imported goods in this port.

Breweries, firms that prepare fish food, and ship-building facilities are all located near the port. Container ships, dry bulk carriers shipping dry and liquid bulk, liquefied petroleum gas, containers, and other cargo, as well as passenger’s vessels, use the port.

The port is 47 hectares in size, with eight wharves and 18 berthing facilities. The port gate is 180 meters wide and can handle ships with a maximum draft of 10 meters. The port’s water depth is 11 meters. The storage area is 24 hectares and includes three steel silos with a capacity of 26 metric tonnes of grain and cereal. The port’s yearly capacity is approximately 1,051,000 TEUs.

Paita is located about 500 km north of Callao’s northern shore. It is the most important port in the country’s northern region, handling around 10% of all commodities traffic. Canned and frozen fish, fruits such as mangoes, grapes, bananas, prawns, phosphate, cotton, and ethanol are all major export commodities. Automobiles, chemicals, cereals, grain, and vegetable oil are among the most common imports.

Paita port has been in existence since medieval times and was once a major port, with European fishing vessels visiting it in the nineteenth century. It was a well-protected natural harbour that provided convenient anchorage for these ships when they stopped for repairs, maintenance, and refilling ship supplies at the port. Paita port began expanding in the late 1990s, and it is now a significant Peruvian container port.

Matarani port is located in Peru’s southern region. This port handles general goods, grain, and cereals, as well as coffee, timber, animal skins, tin alloys, and other exports. It also acts as a Bolivian transshipment port. Every year, it exports roughly 400,000 tonnes and buys around 500,000 tonnes. The port was visited by around 500 ships in 2020, with a cargo flow of 6.2 million tonnes.

The port has basically two cargo handling docks, one of which is dedicated to general cargo, containerized products, and liquids and is 570 meters long with a 9 meter draft. The second berth is 270 meters long and only handles chemical shipments.

Salaverry port, located in the north of Peru, is a major regional port that handles bulk cargo and processed products, as well as ores, cereals, and fertilizers such as urea and phosphate. Bulk sugar shipments are handled in a special way at the port.

Salaverry port features a man-made port with coastal structures stretching for 700 meters and a sea depth of around 8 meters. The port receives 200 ships every year and handles roughly 970,000 tonnes of cargo. The port handled 1900 TEUs in the year 2019.

The navigation channel is 150 meters long and 31 feet wide, running all the way to the two concrete docks. Only ships with a draft of more than 28 meters are authorized to reach the port facilities during high waves.