[3] Construction of the port started on 1978 as part of the economic development of Fujairah and container operations commenced in 1982.

[4] On the morning of 12 May 2019 a pro-Hezbollah news channel Al Mayadeen falsely reported that seven oil tankers were involved in an explosion in the Port of Fujairah.

The US military team that assessed the blasts initial investigation blamed Iran or Iranian-backed proxies of causing the attack.

[8] The port is connected to the Etihad Rail linking the industrial city of Ruwais in the western region of the UAE to the town of Ghuwaifat close to the Saudi border and then to Fujairah in the east.

[3] UAE-based Brooge Petroleum and Gas Investment Company announced plans to set up an oil refinery to produce bunker fuel with a capacity of 250,000 barrel per day (bpd) in the port.

The facility will be the first in the Middle East and North Africa to comply with the new IMO 2020 regulations of the International Maritime Organization by capping sulfur content in shipping fuels.

[4] Fujairah location as a bunkering hub occurred as a result of the Iran–Iraq War in the 1980s, when the Strait of Hormuz was mined by the Iranian military and tankers were targeted by Iran.

[10] Due to the increasing Iranian threats of closing the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping, in July 2012 the UAE began using the new Habshan–Fujairah oil pipeline from the Habshan fields in Abu Dhabi to the Fujairah oil terminal on the Gulf of Oman, effectively bypassing the Strait of Hormuz.