Home port

{{short description|Port at which a ship or boat is based}} {{Other|Home Port (disambiguation)}} [[Image:Stern of Bro Elisabeth.jpg|thumb|Port of registry Port aux Français lettered beneath the ship name on the stern]] A vessel's '''home port''' is the port at which it is based, which may not be the same as its '''port of registry'''<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.wcoomd.org/files/1.%20Public%20files/PDFandDocuments/Conventions/naireng[1].pdf |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101203161217/http://www.wcoomd.org/files/1.%20Public%20files/PDFandDocuments/Conventions/naireng%5B1%5D.pdf |url-status = dead |archive-date = 2010-12-03 |title = INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON MUTUAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE FOR THE PREVENTION, INVESTIGATION AND REPRESSION OF CUSTOMS OFFENCES }}</ref> shown on its registration documents<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.seatalk.info/cgi-bin/nautical-marine-sailing-dictionary/db.cgi?db=db&view_records=1&uid=default&Term=port |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928205346/http://www.seatalk.info/cgi-bin/nautical-marine-sailing-dictionary/db.cgi?db=db&view_records=1&uid=default&Term=port |url-status = usurped |archive-date = September 28, 2007 | title = Nautical Dictionary, Glossary and Terms Directory | last = MacKenzie | first = Mike | year = 2005–2007 | access-date = 2007-04-13}}</ref> and lettered on the stern of the ship's hull.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=United States Government |title=Title 46, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 67.123 |url=http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=08b11a85ee90d38de960b99922a3e8ab&rgn=div8&view=text&node=46:2.0.1.3.23.9.1.3&idno=46 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004115955/http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=3395ede56b1b19f9b6bbcdb9b81feb8b&rgn=div8&view=text&node=46:2.0.1.3.23.9.1.3&idno=46 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2006-10-04 |access-date=2007-04-17 }}</ref> In the cruise industry the term "home port" is also often used in reference to the port in which a ship will take on/change over most of its passengers while taking on stores, supplies and fuel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cruiseportlandmaine.com/cruise-directors/port-facts/home-porting/|title=Home Porting - Cruise Portland|website=cruiseportlandmaine.com|access-date=2015-12-15|archive-date=2019-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509183433/http://www.cruiseportlandmaine.com/cruise-directors/port-facts/home-porting/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Navy== In a navy, a ship's ''home port'' is the port best suited to provide maintenance and restock weaponry particular to ships of that class and build. On conclusion of a tour of duty, a combat vessel returning to port will usually return to its ''home port''.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}} A single home port also makes it easier for family to visit sailors on leave.

==See also== {{Portal|Transport}} * List of largest container shipping companies * Flag of convenience

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