Kaloi Limenes or Kali Limenes ( ) is a village and port in the Heraklion regional unit, southern

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, in

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, located 70km (43.5 miles) south-west of the city of

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. It has 21 inhabitants (2011). It is known as a major

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spot for ships in the southern

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.Kali Limenes information
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Kaloi Limenes (meaning 'good harbors' or 'fair havens') is a

natural port A harbor (American English), harbour (British English; see spelling differences), or haven is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked. The term ''harbor'' is often used interchangeably with ''port'', which is a ...

near the southernmost point of Crete. It is close to the village of

Lentas Lentas (Greek Λέντας), Lentas is a coastal village 75 km south of Heraklion, on the south coast of Crete in Greece. It belongs to the community of Miamou within the municipality of Gortyna. Origins of the name The name of Lentas possi ...

(ancient Levin), and the unexcavated remains of Lassea, a port for the ancient settlement of

Gortys Gortyna ( grc, Γόρτυνα; also known as Gortyn (Γορτύν)) was a town of ancient Crete which appears in the Homeric poems under the form of Γορτύν; but afterwards became usually Gortyna (Γόρτυνα). According to Stephanus of ...

.Prefecture of Heraklio: Kali Limenes
from the Hellenic Resources Network According to the '' Acts of the Apostles'', Apostle Paul, landed at Kaloi Limenes on his way from Caesarea to Rome as a prisoner of the Romans, then proceeded further west along the coast to Phoinikas ("Phoenix"), identified to the homonym small village in the bay west of Loutro or Loutro itself. Captain T.A.B. Spratt, ''Travels and Researches in Crete'', 1865, II 1-6Llewellyn-Smith, Michael
The Great Island
', Longmans, 1965; online edition Sunshade Press, 2007. The ISBN printed in the document (978-0-95282-4-2) is invalid. Fielding, Xan ''The Stronghold: An Account of the Four Seasons in the White Mountains of Crete'', Secker and Warburg, 1953: "St Paul landed at the village of Phoenix after barely escaping shipwreck on one of his many propaganda tours. And when he did land he barely escaped with his life, for he was looked on as a busybody and promptly beaten up. The preaching of the apostle could hardly have endeared him to such happy-go-lucky pagans. That, at least, is what they say in Loutro today: and I can well believe it." A small church was built there (first in

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times, then restored in the 1960s).

Bunkering

The port is the home of a major oil storage and

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facility, located on the small island of Aghios Pavlos ("Saint Paul") at the port's entrance. The facility has four shore-based

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containing fuel oil and gasoil,

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of 1,000 cubic metres per hour capacity and three loading docks. The terminal's maximum

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of 40 feet (13.45 metres)"O.W. Bunker & Seka to cooperate at Crete bunker station"
''Marine World'', 22 January 2004 enables the facility to handle oil tankers of up to approximately two hundred thousand metric tons of deadweight.

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