Port Gellhorn

Port Gellhorn fills a crucial role in GTA 6's world — it's the blue-collar, industrial counterweight to Vice City's flashy excess. Drawing primarily from Port Everglades and elements of Fort Lauderdale, Port Gellhorn appears to be a significant secondary urban area with its own distinct identity, economy, and criminal ecosystem.

The port itself is massive. Trailer footage and screenshots reveal a sprawling container terminal with stacked shipping containers, massive gantry cranes, and cargo vessels at dock. This isn't just scenic backdrop — the scale suggests the port will be a major gameplay location, likely central to smuggling, heist, and logistics missions. In real life, Port Everglades is one of Florida's busiest cargo and cruise ports, handling millions of tons of cargo and over 3 million cruise passengers annually. GTA 6's version appears to capture both the commercial shipping and cruise ship elements.

Beyond the docks, Port Gellhorn sprawls into a working-class urban environment that feels fundamentally different from Vice City. The architecture is more utilitarian — low-rise commercial strips, warehouse districts, modest residential neighborhoods, and the kind of strip-mall-and-highway landscape that defines much of real South Florida outside the glamorous coastal strip. Auto repair shops, bail bonds offices, pawn shops, and check cashing stores line the commercial corridors.

The industrial zones visible in footage include what appears to be a petroleum storage facility (Port Everglades is a major fuel distribution hub), a dry dock for ship repair, and manufacturing or processing plants. These environments offer gameplay possibilities that Vice City's pristine streets don't — heavier vehicle access, less police presence, and the kind of gritty environments that suit GTA's criminal activities.

Port Gellhorn also appears to have a residential component that shows a different side of Leonida life. While Vice City showcases the wealthy and famous, Port Gellhorn's neighborhoods appear more diverse and working-class. We've spotted what looks like modest single-family homes, apartment complexes, and the kind of lived-in neighborhoods where NPCs might be mechanics, dock workers, and service industry employees rather than models and finance bros.

The waterfront in Port Gellhorn is industrial rather than recreational. Instead of beaches, there are seawalls, loading docks, and commercial marinas. This creates a stark visual contrast when traveling from Vice City — the transition from turquoise recreational waters to the brown-gray industrial waterfront tells a story about class and geography that mirrors real South Florida.

For the criminal narrative, Port Gellhorn is likely essential. Real-world ports are nexuses of organized crime — drug imports, stolen goods, human trafficking, and union corruption. GTA 6's version probably serves as the logistics backbone for the game's criminal economy. Container theft, cargo hijacking, port infiltration missions, and dock worker union storylines all seem like natural fits.