Cargo Business Newswire

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

AAPA features interactive hemispheric map of member ports

For those looking for a "go-to" tool to geographically locate and gather information about individual ports throughout the Western Hemisphere, it’s available on the website of the American Association of Port Authorities.

Using Google Maps technology, AAPA’s Member Ports Map and Multimedia tool provides information regarding the primary cargoes, channel depths, contact information, websites, image galleries, social media and multimedia links for each of its member ports.

In addition to seeing the geographic location of each port, from the website page you can render a top-down view of each port location by clicking on the ‘window/arrow’ icon in the top left corner of the map,

then scrolling to the bottom of the list and clicking on the square map icon. Using aerial and satellite imagery, this view enables you zoom in on the address of each port’s headquarters location.

"AAPA has developed this effective, user-friendly and interactive resource to help advance the common interests of the port community and provide beneficial information about the location and essential role each of our member ports play in the global transportation system," said Kurt Nagle, AAPA president and CEO.

Overall, the ports map includes buttons and underlying information for 14 Canadian ports, 85
U.S. ports, nine Caribbean ports and 48 Latin American ports.