diff --git a/ports/proj/portfile.cmake b/ports/proj/portfile.cmake
index 0cbf6b38266e1b..4b14d63230000d 100644
--- a/ports/proj/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/proj/portfile.cmake
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
     OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
     REPO OSGeo/PROJ
     REF "${VERSION}"
-    SHA512 9ddef9b11e1d38ec16eec962d539a64d781d194242173645a966c5c953bea1583dd3cc801920329b92962b2bd9ee622ab04e26d356e969081366498c8ad30161
+    SHA512 45d8bfb883431c62c2627cecf583a4374efda7f109c2b43d3fe8ef18136f30cf57682d6e6c44256ba099533754392c87f71e940a41018a577f540310001e0f05
     HEAD_REF master
     PATCHES
         fix-proj4-targets-cmake.patch
diff --git a/ports/proj/usage b/ports/proj/usage
index 59044f7d292123..06eb04dee71e0a 100644
--- a/ports/proj/usage
+++ b/ports/proj/usage
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 proj provides CMake targets:
 
-    find_package(PROJ CONFIG REQUIRED)
-    target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE PROJ::proj)
+  find_package(PROJ CONFIG REQUIRED)
+  target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE PROJ::proj)
+
+proj provides pkg-config modules:
+
+  # Coordinate transformation software library
+  proj
diff --git a/ports/proj/vcpkg.json b/ports/proj/vcpkg.json
index 1a61a19076c1ea..f3dc4167d4407b 100644
--- a/ports/proj/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/proj/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "proj",
-  "version": "9.5.1",
+  "version": "9.6.0",
   "description": "PROJ library for cartographic projections",
   "homepage": "https://proj.org/",
   "license": "MIT",
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index 0e8d38cab5e744..472765e0dd694c 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -7321,7 +7321,7 @@
       "port-version": 0
     },
     "proj": {
-      "baseline": "9.5.1",
+      "baseline": "9.6.0",
       "port-version": 0
     },
     "projectm": {
diff --git a/versions/p-/proj.json b/versions/p-/proj.json
index f9d41c33143b4a..114bda17c35aee 100644
--- a/versions/p-/proj.json
+++ b/versions/p-/proj.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "157177ebd5778822eaf744dd5c725e553758a866",
+      "version": "9.6.0",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "18367089a6c705c372a3d3ed2f5d631420c80340",
       "version": "9.5.1",