Definition: Port call by a merchant ship

Category: Transport

A merchant ship makes a port call when it anchors or berths to load or unload cargo, to embark or disembark passengers or to facilitate excursions by passengers.

Note: Anchorage, without any cargo or passenger movements, and traversing the port are excluded. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/KS-BI-03-002-__-N-EN.pdf