Port of Singapore
A fifth of the world's shipping containers and half its crude oil pass through this single strait every year.
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Singapore has been a significant entrepôt and trading post for at least two centuries, and the port is the economic engine behind all of it. Ranked world's top maritime capital since 2015, it is simultaneously the world's largest bunkering port and the world's busiest transshipment port — the invisible machinery beneath the city's polished surface. The majority of ships crossing between the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean funnel through the Singapore Strait.
What to look for
- Tanker traffic threading the Singapore Strait — half the world's annual crude oil supply moves along this water
- Container ship scale at the terminals: Singapore transships a fifth of all global shipping containers each year
- The Johor-Singapore Causeway to the north, built in 1923, which sealed the Straits of Johor to all ship traffic
Port terminals are industrial and restricted; continuous ship traffic in the Singapore Strait is visible from Singapore's southern waterfront.
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More to see in Singapore
- Singapore Botanic GardensThe world's only tropical UNESCO garden — where 1920s rubber supplied half the planet's latex and orchids now carry diplomats' names.
- Marina Bay SandsA 150-metre infinity pool balanced on the world's largest public cantilevered platform, jutting 66.5 metres past the edge of its own tower.
- Marina Bay Street CircuitLewis Hamilton said this 4.927 km loop was twice as physically punishing as Monaco — and you can walk every metre of it.
- Marina BayThe entire bay you're standing beside was open sea until 1992 — 38 years of reclamation drained the anchorage and pushed the Singapore River's mouth inland.
- Gardens by the BayThe world's largest glass greenhouse anchors a 105-hectare park on Singapore's Marina Reservoir.
- Singapore FlyerFor six years this was the tallest Ferris wheel on earth — Las Vegas finally beat it in 2014, by just 2.6 metres.