diff --git a/science/Makefile b/science/Makefile
index edc9b3f57097..3d374e0c0f09 100644
--- a/science/Makefile
+++ b/science/Makefile
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
     SUBDIR += ruby-dcl
     SUBDIR += ruby-gphys
     SUBDIR += simlib
+    SUBDIR += szip
     SUBDIR += udunits
     SUBDIR += vis5d+
     SUBDIR += vmd
diff --git a/science/szip/Makefile b/science/szip/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f8141c0dfe57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/science/szip/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# New ports collection makefile for:	hdf-szip
+# Date created:		3 March 2005
+# Whom:			glewis
+#
+# $FreeBSD$
+#
+
+PORTNAME=	szip
+PORTVERSION=	2.0
+CATEGORIES=	science archivers
+MASTER_SITES=	ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/szip/${PORTVERSION}/src/
+PKGNAMEPREFIX=	hdf-
+
+MAINTAINER=	glewis@FreeBSD.org
+COMMENT=	Lossless compression library for scientific data
+
+GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
+INSTALLS_SHLIB=	yes
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/science/szip/distinfo b/science/szip/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bccb3225a14f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/science/szip/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+MD5 (szip-2.0.tar.gz) = 21383e286267021cbe93cbb2698bf8b9
+SIZE (szip-2.0.tar.gz) = 368913
diff --git a/science/szip/pkg-descr b/science/szip/pkg-descr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f3b87bcabccf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/science/szip/pkg-descr
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Szip is an implementation of the extended-Rice lossless compression algorithm.
+
+WWW:	http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/doc_resource/SZIP/
diff --git a/science/szip/pkg-plist b/science/szip/pkg-plist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b88bcb0d7142
--- /dev/null
+++ b/science/szip/pkg-plist
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+include/ricehdf.h
+include/szip_adpt.h
+include/szlib.h
+lib/libsz.a
+lib/libsz.la
+lib/libsz.so
+lib/libsz.so.2