diff --git a/devel/Makefile b/devel/Makefile
index 64abfd0d6a28..41cd19a13e64 100644
--- a/devel/Makefile
+++ b/devel/Makefile
@@ -642,6 +642,7 @@
     SUBDIR += hs-language-c
     SUBDIR += hs-largeword
     SUBDIR += hs-lazysmallcheck
+    SUBDIR += hs-lifted-base
     SUBDIR += hs-logict
     SUBDIR += hs-mmap
     SUBDIR += hs-monad-control
diff --git a/devel/hs-lifted-base/Makefile b/devel/hs-lifted-base/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bf1f16894b28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/hs-lifted-base/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# New ports collection makefile for: hs-lifted-base
+# Date created:        December 30, 2011
+# Whom:                haskell@FreeBSD.org
+#
+# $FreeBSD$
+#
+
+PORTNAME=	lifted-base
+PORTVERSION=	0.1.0.3
+CATEGORIES=	devel haskell
+
+MAINTAINER=	haskell@FreeBSD.org
+COMMENT=	Lifted IO operations from the base library
+
+LICENSE=	BSD
+
+CABAL_SETUP=	Setup.hs
+USE_CABAL=	base-unicode-symbols>=0.1.1 monad-control>=0.3 \
+		transformers-base>=0.4
+
+.include "${.CURDIR}/../../lang/ghc/bsd.cabal.mk"
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/hs-lifted-base/distinfo b/devel/hs-lifted-base/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..32d81e17f2af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/hs-lifted-base/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+SHA256 (cabal/lifted-base-0.1.0.3.tar.gz) = 66f4f6ceca1612bc738a33ba786b717c4412a025079ece7eed6449ded19662ba
+SIZE (cabal/lifted-base-0.1.0.3.tar.gz) = 8557
diff --git a/devel/hs-lifted-base/pkg-descr b/devel/hs-lifted-base/pkg-descr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..312558291b2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/hs-lifted-base/pkg-descr
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+lifted-base exports IO operations from the base library lifted to any
+instance of MonadBase or MonadBaseControl.
+
+WWW:	https://github.com/basvandijk/lifted-base
diff --git a/lang/ghc/bsd.hackage.mk b/lang/ghc/bsd.hackage.mk
index 5cee7a9162cf..5436c08ad799 100644
--- a/lang/ghc/bsd.hackage.mk
+++ b/lang/ghc/bsd.hackage.mk
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ lazysmallcheck_port=		devel/hs-lazysmallcheck
 lhs2tex_port=			textproc/hs-lhs2tex
 libmpd_port=			audio/hs-libmpd
 libxml_port=			textproc/hs-libxml
+lifted-base_port=		devel/hs-lifted-base
 logict_port=			devel/hs-logict
 math-functions_port=		math/hs-math-functions
 MemoTrie_port=			devel/hs-MemoTrie