Shuaiba Port is located 45 kilometres to the south of Kuwait city. The geographical location of the port is at Latitude 29° 2’, 26" North and Longitude 48° 10', 56" East. The port is bounded by, the Southern Pier of Mina Ahmadi from the North and by Mina Abdullah from the South.

The port of Shuaiba consists of Commercial berths, Container berths and an Oil pier operated by Kuwait National Petroleum Company.

There are 20 berths of a total of 4068 meters in length. Depth of these berths range from 10 to 14 meters, berth Nos. 15, 16, 17 and 18 are used for container vessels. The Oil pier has a depth of 16 meters. There are two small craft & barge basins at the port. The small craft basin has a depth of 4 meters and contains three piers of 100, 175 & 200 meters in length. The barge basin has a depth of 6 meters and contains four piers of 157, 211, 250 & 287 meters in length.

The port is equipped with moving conveyors to load Urea exported by Petrochemical Industries Company on berth Nos. 1 & 2. There is another conveyor at berth No. 6 for loading Sulphur exported by Kuwait National Petroleum Company and yet another conveyor at berth No. 14 for loading Petroleum Coke.

Shuaiba container terminal is considered to be a modern and developed terminal with a total area of about 31 hectors. Along the east side of the terminal extend four container berths (15, 16, 17 & 18) used to handle containers and ro-ro vessels with a total length of 880 meters and a depth of 14 meters which can accommodate vessels of 13 meters draft at mean high water spring tide. The terminal also has two CFS warehouses with a total area of 14,500 square meters. And has 80 electrical points for reefer containers. Customs inspection area with a capacity to handle 16 containers at one time is also situated within the port premises.

Shuaiba Container Terminal was first commissioned in May 1982, with berth Nos. 17 & 18 and two container gantry cranes with a lifting capacity of 40 tons. In August 1983, berth Nos. 17 & 18 were put into service with additional two gantries of the same capacity, of the four gantries one was damaged during the Iraqi invasion, the terminal at present has three gantries. The terminal is also equipped with modern sophisticated container handling equipment.

* Information given herein is, as given in Kuwait Ports Authority yearbook and details are subject to changes, by Kuwait Ports Authority (KPA), without notice.