Halifax Harbour Facts

• At a depth of 18 metres at low tide, one of the world's deepest harbours
• An outer harbour two kilometres in width and eight kilometres in length with a narrow channel leading to a huge inner harbour
• Harbour is sheltered, spacious, and has minimal currents and tides
• Ice free port leaves the harbour accessible year round
• One of the largest commercial ports in Canada, 2002 cargo tonnage - 12,844,487 metric tonnes
• Home of Canada’s east coast Navy
• Shortest ocean voyage for ships operating the North Atlantic, Round-the-World & Suez routes
• 89 cruise ship calls welcoming over 160,000 passengers from 16 cruise ship lines in 2002