Milford Haven (harbour)

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This article is about the waterway, see Milford Haven for the town that takes its name from the harbour.

Milford Haven is a natural harbour in Pembrokeshire, south Wales. It is formed by the Pembroke River and the Daugleddau estuary, and winds west to the sea. As one of the deepest natural harbours in the world, it is a busy shipping channel, trafficked by ferries from Pembroke Dock to Ireland, oil tankers and pleasure craft.

Milford Haven has the largest port in Wales. It is also the fifth largest port in the United Kingdom and contains a significant oil and natural gas terminal. Two LNG Terminals are under construction in 2006. There are two large oil refineries nearby which represent one fifth of the United Kingdom's oil refining capacity.

This is the location of the Sea Empress oil spill in 1996, one of the most devastating oil tanker disasters the UK has ever seen.

As a first stage of a wave power plant, there will be some testing at West Dale Bay^[1].