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Porsche Cayenne

The Porsche Cayenne is a sport utility vehicle produced by Porsche since 2002, when it debuted as the company's first SUV and third model series after the 911 and Boxster.

Porsche Macan

The Porsche Macan is a compact luxury crossover SUV built by Porsche at its Leipzig plant, launched in 2014 and followed by an all-electric second generation in 2024.

Porsche Panamera

The Porsche Panamera, also known as the Panamera Gran Turismo, is a four-door luxury Gran Turismo Porsche has produced since 2009 at its Leipzig plant.

Porsche SE

Porsche SE, formally Porsche Automobil Holding SE, is a Stuttgart-based, family-controlled holding company whose Volkswagen AG stake gives the Porsche and Piëch families 53.3 percent of the automaker's voting rights.

Porsche Taycan

The Porsche Taycan is a battery-electric sports sedan built by Porsche at Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen since 2019, the company's first purely electric production car, using an 800-volt electrical system.

Port

A port, also called a seaport, is a facility on a coast or shore where ships load and unload cargo and passengers; Shanghai handled the most containers in 2024.

Port (computer networking)

A port in computer networking is a 16-bit number from 0 to 65535 that identifies which process or service on a host should receive data.

Port and starboard

Port and starboard are the nautical terms for the left and right sides of a vessel facing the bow, unambiguous regardless of the observer's orientation.

Port Arthur LNG

Port Arthur LNG is a liquefied natural gas export terminal under construction in Jefferson County, Texas, developed by Sempra Infrastructure with a planned capacity of about 26 million tonnes per annum.

Port Arthur Refinery (Valero)

The Port Arthur Refinery is a Valero-owned petroleum refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, processing 435,000 barrels of crude daily into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.

Port Augusta

Port Augusta is a port city at the head of Spencer Gulf in South Australia, founded in the 1850s as an outlet for wool, wheat, and minerals.

Port Authority Building (Antwerp)

The Port Authority Building, known in Dutch as the Havenhuis, is the Zaha Hadid-designed headquarters of the port of Antwerp, Belgium, a diamond-shaped glass extension atop a restored historic fire station, opened in 2016.

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, PANYNJ, is a bistate agency created in 1921 that runs the region's airports, bridges, tunnels, seaport, and PATH.

Port Everglades

Port Everglades (originally Lake Mabel) is a man-made deep-water seaport and inlet in Broward County, Florida, governed by Broward County as a self-funded enterprise. A top-three cruise homeport, leading container port, and South Florida's main energy seaport, with over $3 billion in planned 20-year investments.

Port Everglades power station

The Port Everglades power station is a natural gas-fired plant operated by Florida Power & Light in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, commissioned in April 2016 with about 1,250 MW of capacity.

Port forwarding

Port forwarding, also called port mapping, is a network address translation technique that redirects inbound Internet traffic from a router to a specific device on a private network.

Port fuel injection

Port fuel injection (PFI) is a gasoline fuel delivery method that sprays fuel into each cylinder's intake port before the intake valve, displacing carburetors from the early 1980s.

Port Hope conversion facility

The Port Hope conversion facility is a uranium conversion plant in Port Hope, Ontario, owned by Cameco and holding about 18 percent of world UF6 conversion capacity.

Port Klang

Port Klang (Malay: Pelabuhan Klang), historically Port Swettenham, is Malaysia's largest port in Selangor, handling 15.14 million containers in 2025 and ranking 10th busiest in the world.

Port knocking

Port knocking is a network security technique in which a client makes connection attempts to a predefined sequence of closed ports, prompting a daemon to open a protected service port.

Port of Açu

The Port of Açu (Porto do Açu) is a privately owned port-industrial complex in São João da Barra, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, and the largest in Latin America.

Port of Algeciras

The Port of Algeciras is Spain's largest port by cargo volume, a major container transshipment hub on the Strait of Gibraltar handling over 100 million tonnes yearly.

Port of Antwerp-Bruges

Port of Antwerp-Bruges is a Belgian seaport formed in 2022 by merging the ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge, Europe's second-largest port by cargo throughput after Rotterdam.

Port of Busan

The Port of Busan (부산항) is South Korea's largest seaport, opened in 1876 at the southeastern tip of the Korean Peninsula and handling about 75 percent of its container cargo.

Port of Callao

The Port of Callao is Peru's principal seaport, located near Lima on the Pacific coast, handling about 70% of national maritime cargo through two private terminals.

Port of Chancay

The Port of Chancay, also known as the Chancay Mega-port, is a deep-water megaport north of Lima, Peru, built and majority owned by China's COSCO Shipping.

Port of Chittagong

The Port of Chittagong, also called Chattogram Port, is the principal seaport of Bangladesh, a riverine port on the Karnaphuli River that handles about 92 percent of national trade.

Port of Colombo

The Port of Colombo is the largest and busiest port in Sri Lanka and its principal container gateway, handling a record 8.29 million TEUs in 2025.

Port of Durban

The Port of Durban is a harbor on South Africa's Indian Ocean coast at Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, and the country's main seaport, handling about 46% of national container traffic.

Port of Felixstowe

The Port of Felixstowe, also known as Felixstowe Docks, is the United Kingdom's largest container port, located in Felixstowe, Suffolk, and operated by the Hutchison Ports group.