Global Economy & Trade

Port catalog

IMF PortWatch port catalog (~2000+ ports worldwide) with country, coordinates, top industries, vessel counts by type, and share of country maritime trade. Use limit up to 5000 to request the full catalog; the client pages ArcGIS results so requests are not silently capped at 1000.

get/api/v1/maritime/ports

Query parameters

countrystring

Filter by ISO3 country code (e.g. USA, CHN, JPN)

limitinteger

Maximum number of records to return (full PortWatch catalog is ~2000+ ports).

Response

Port records.

Example response

{
  "meta": {
    "endpoint": "/api/v1/fred/us/cpi",
    "data_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:00Z",
    "response_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:12Z",
    "provider": "Sugra API v1.0.1",
    "data_age_days": 8.532,
    "source": "sugra_crypto",
    "attribution": "Short interest and Reg SHO daily short volume data is owned by and sourced from FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).",
    "fallback_chain": [
      "sugra_crypto",
      "sugra_finance"
    ],
    "period": "2026-Q1",
    "notes": "the UKMTO report behind these counts is dated 2026-08-21 and is 11 days old"
  }
}

Changes

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  the response property data/count became optional for the status 200
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  response property data/count list-of-types was widened by adding types null and number to media type application/json of response 200
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  response property data/ports list-of-types was widened by adding types null to media type application/json of response 200
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  added subschema #1 subschema #2 to the data/filter_country response property anyOf list for the response status 200
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  added the optional property code to the response with the 401 status
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  added the optional property hint to the response with the 401 status
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  added the optional property hint to the response with the 429 status
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Jul 26, 20267fc920a3005c1See the full diff
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  for the query request parameter limit, the max was increased from 2000.00 to 5000.00
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This revision also has 4 changes that name no endpoint, such as unreferenced schemas being removed. See the revision's changelog

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