Port of Hadera, Commercial port on the Mediterranean coast in Hadera, Israel

The Port of Hadera is a service port for the Orot Rabin power station, made of two parts. An open-sea pier about 300 metres long takes bulk carriers on its north side, where three cranes unload coal onto a conveyor on a 2,100-metre road bridge leading ashore. A breakwater shelters an anchorage for auxiliary vessels and tugs, which also serves as the cooling basin.

Following the 1974 decision to convert the Hadera power station to coal after the Arab boycott, a breakwater for the cooling basin was begun in 1977. Dutch firm Liebensh built the open-sea coal pier from 1980, and it opened in 1983; the bulk carrier NYUTA opened the coal line from Africa. A 1980 storm swept work barges ashore and workers were rescued by helicopter.

The port is run by the Israel Ports Company and serves the Orot Rabin power station. Its coal unloader was the first to open a coal route from Africa to Israel, with the bulk carrier NYUTA of Tanker Services arriving first. In 2009 the Hadera municipality asked to annex the port area, which holds the status of a Galilee area.

The port is not readily accessible by foot since it functions as an active industrial facility with restricted areas. You can best view it from the nearby coastline or elevated spots in town.

The open-sea coal pier has no breakwater: Dutch firm Liebens designed it after comparing winter storm days with the coal tonnage and unloading time needed. The Italian company TRINACRIA was building it when, on 10 December 1980, storm-driven work barges ran aground and the workers were rescued by helicopter.