# The port code AQABA can read as a place in Antarctica

**URL:** <https://community.dockflow.com/t/the-port-code-aqaba-can-read-as-a-place-in-antarctica/87>\
**Category:** Known and fixed issues\
**Created:** [November 6, 2026, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.dockflow.com/t/the-port-code-aqaba-can-read-as-a-place-in-antarctica/87 "2026-11-06T14:45:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.dockflow.com/t/the-port-code-aqaba-can-read-as-a-place-in-antarctica/87/1 "2026-11-06T14:45:01Z")

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**Status:** Fixed since June 2026

**How to recognise it**  
A shipment on a Red Sea route could show a location in Antarctica, or a time that made no sense for the port, where you expected Aqaba in Jordan. The carrier’s own page showed the right port, so the difference looked like a mistake in the tracking.

**Which shipments this affects**  
Shipments where a carrier sends the word AQABA as the location code, on routes that call at the port of Aqaba in Jordan.

**Cause**  
AQABA is also a valid UN/LOCODE. Read as a code, AQ is the country code of Antarctica and ABA is a research station there. Carriers, Hapag-Lloyd among them, send the same word to mean the port of Aqaba.

**What changed**  
Dockflow now reads AQABA as Aqaba in Jordan, with the code JOAQJ and the local time of that port.

**Is past data corrected?**  
No. The fix applies from that month on; earlier data stays as it was.

**How to check your shipment**  
Open the shipment and check that the location reads Aqaba, Jordan, and that its times fit that port. If it still shows another place, contact support with the reference.

**Do you need to do anything?**  
Nothing.