The Port of Papeete relies on a structured port area, encompassing all the land and sea spaces necessary for carrying out its missions. This area constitutes a key lever for the maritime, economic, and logistical organization of French Polynesia.
The port infrastructure includes facilities dedicated to international and inter-island trade, notably specialized quays for container traffic, coastal shipping, and supplying the islands. It also incorporates equipment related to the fishing port, contributing to the operation of its economic sectors and the territory's maritime activity, as well as specific areas for hydrocarbons and gas products, operated within a strengthened regulatory and security framework.
The port area also includes facilities dedicated to maritime passenger transport and mixed services, whether for superyachts, cruise ships, ferries providing service to the sister island of Moorea, or vessels combining freight and passenger transport to the archipelagos. These services play a crucial role in inter-island mobility and the accessibility of the territory.
The port also accommodates areas dedicated to recreational boating, including marinas, pontoons and groynes adapted to different types of navigation, as well as essential nautical services such as pilotage and towing, indispensable for the safety and fluidity of port movements.
Beyond its operational functions, the port complex includes spaces open to the public, with landscaped areas along the seafront, park, restaurants and promenades contributing to the integration of the port into its urban environment and to the quality of life.
Through the diversity of its uses and functions, the Autonomous Port of Papeete positions itself as a multi-activity port serving territorial continuity, economic development and maritime openness of French Polynesia.
Over the years and with the evolution of its various traffics, the port has never ceased to develop and reinvent itself, adapting its infrastructure and extending its area of activity to constitute, today, a port district covering 3600 hectares of maritime domain and 88 hectares of land domain, between Tahiti, Moorea and Raiatea.
The port area today represents more than 250 leaseholders from the main sectors of the Polynesian economy.
