API Call - Port  - Search

Data search:
country=<locode>
port=<alpha characters>
locale=<locale_id>
facility[<facility>]=true

<facility> can be any one of

Port facilities

airport         ballast         banks         bulk         cont
cranes          cruise             fuel          garbage
isps               lpglng          medical     surveyor     tankers        tugs            wasteoil         water

Cargo facilities

bulk              cont (containers)         cranes         cruise
lpglng           tankers       offshore_terminal

Drydock facilities

   drydock1           drydock2         drydock3             drydock4

Multiple facilities are searched for by repeating the facility clause.

Location search:
distance=nn
distance_unit=nauticalmiles|kilometers|miles

[
    latitude_degrees=nn
    latitude_minutes=nn
    latitude_hemisphere=N|S
    longitude_degrees=nn
    longitude_minutes=nn
    longitude_hemisphere=E|W
] | [ 
    lat=[+|-]nn.ddddd
    lng=[+|-]nnn.ddddd
]

The "port=" search term contains an implicit wildcard at the end, thus "port=a" will return ports beginning a..., aa..., ab... to azzzzz

The "distance=" search term will order results by distance, ascending

Search criteria are ANDed together using the ampersand symbol ("&"). The first search term starts with the querystring symbol ("?"). An API key is required unless the search format is HTML 

Sort by the stated criterion

sort=port                            sort by port name ASC
sort=port_reverse           sort by port name DESC
sort=country                     sort by country name ASC
sort=country_reverse     sort by country name  DESC

Note that a search by distance is automatically ordered by the distance from the stated position in ascending distance order