The Authority manages the following ports: The Freeport of Monrovia, Port of Buchanan, Port of Greenville and the Port of Harper.
Freeport of Monrovia
Is the largest port in the Authority's Network. The United States Military built it during WorldWar II for strategic purposes. It handles most of the Authority's imported cargoes. Two breakwaters, 2,350m and 2,200m long, protect the harbor enclosing a basin of 300 hectares of protected water.
The general cargo berths (the main pier) consists of an open piled, 610m long by 11m wide marginal wharf with a reinforced concrete deck. The main wharf serves coastal and main line vessels of the 2nd and 3rd generation.
Port of Buchanan
The port of Buchanan is located some 170 miles southeast of Monrovia. The Liberia-American Swedish Mining Corporation (LAMCO), a joint venture company, to export the ironore deposits of the Nimba Range, constructed it in 1960.
Two break waters, 1,890m and 590m long protect the harbor. Inside the basin, a 255m longore-loading quay is located adjacent to the deeper section of the harbor basin with a water depth of 12.95m belowchart datum.
Adjacent to theloading quay, a waiting berth for ore carriers is available. On the inner side of the secondary breakwater, a commercial quay, 334m long, is located with an available water depth of 10.15 m below chart datum.
The access channel to the port provides ships a water depth of 14.95 m below chart datum and a channel width between the breakwaters of 210m.
Port of Harper
It is located in the southeastern region of Liberia, near the boarder with the Ivory Coast, about 476 miles from the Freeport of Monrovia.
The port was constructed in 1959, on the rocky Russwurn Island, by connecting the island to the main land with a causeway and by constructing a 150m long breakwater off Russwurn Island.
A 100m long reinforced concrete pier with an available water depth of 5.50m provides berthing facilities. The port serves the timber industry of the southeastern hinterland.
Port of Greenville
Is located in the southeastern region of the country, about 421miles from the Freeport of Monrovia. A 400m long breakwater protects the harbor.
There are two quays (70m and 180m long respectively) on the inner side of the breakwater for berthing facilities, with an existing water depth of 6m below chart datum.
The Port was rehabilitated in the early eighties with loan from the German Development Fund. The port functions mainly as an outlet for the timber industry.
