The port is located on the shores of Narva Bay at coordinates 59°25′16″N 27°44′21″E / 59.421010°N 27.739211°E / 59.421010; 27.739211.

This allows the port to receive and service all vessels that are able to pass through the Danish straits.

The port opened for navigation in 2005, has 15 berths with a total length of 3 km, as well as its own railway station with a total length of railroads more than 30 km.

The landlord type of port with 750-hectares has created in the Sillamäe Free Zone Area an Industrial Park with 69 different enterprises, which together form a cluster of the port of Sillamäe.

The port's cargo turnover is about 10 million tons (2019).