VC Port

What Rockstar has said

Rockstar's Vice City page closes its tour of the city's neighbourhoods "out to the VC Port, the cruise ship capital of the world". That is the only official description so far, but it tells you two things: the port is on the edge of the city ("out to"), and it is a passenger port as well as a freight one.

What the official material shows

The best look at the port is an official Vice City screenshot. Rockstar captions it "A Vice City skyline at night featuring a ferris wheel, cars driving, and tall buildings." Beyond the Ferris wheel, an arena branded "Sahara Arena" and a "Vice City Arts Center", the far shore shows a lit container terminal with gantry cranes. Rockstar has not labelled that terminal as the VC Port, but it is the obvious candidate.

Trailer 1 also has a port. Miami New Times pointed to a shot of speedboats with the downtown skyline behind them and compared it to leaving the Port of Miami: "You probably won't take a cruise out of it, but taking a speedboat for your next mission won't fail to impress."

Real-world model: PortMiamiUnconfirmed

"Cruise Capital of the World" is PortMiami's own slogan, used on its signage alongside "Cargo Gateway of the Americas". The port sits on an artificial island in Biscayne Bay, made by joining Dodge, Lummus and Sam's Islands, which were formed from spoil dredged out of Government Cut in the early 1900s. Dade County approved the move to Dodge Island in April 1960. It is now the busiest cruise port in the world, handling more than 7.2 million cruise passengers in 2023/2024, and is home port to Icon of the Seas, the largest cruise ship by gross tonnage. It is also Florida's largest container port. Since 2014 the PortMiami Tunnel has carried trucks straight to the highway network instead of through downtown streets.

The skyline screenshot lines up with the real view. Kaseya Center, the Miami Heat's arena, stands on Biscayne Bay, and the Skyviews Miami observation wheel, opened at Bayside Marketplace in October 2020, rises 200 feet above the bayfront next door to the port.

Vice Port in 2002Unconfirmed

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) had its own port district, Vice Port. Writing after Trailer 1, Game Rant identified the trailer's port as "a significantly more detailed version of Vice Port" and noted highway signs calling it Port Vice City. Rockstar now uses "VC Port", so the name has changed at least once.

What is still unknownUnconfirmed

Rockstar has not published the port's boundaries, whether cruise terminals can be entered, or what missions use it. Given how often the series has used docks for smuggling, a port this size will probably matter to the story, but that is a guess.