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http://www.oceanfreightusa.com/shipref_tws.php#S&P_AF

AFRICA

Algeria, Capital: Algiers. Key Seafreight Ports:

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Algiers
*
Annaba
*
Ghazaouet
*
Oran
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Angola & Cabinda, Capital: Luanda. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Luanda
* Lobito
* Nambibe



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Benin, Capital: Porto Novo. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Cotonou

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Botswana, Capital: Gaborone. Key Seafreight Ports:

* None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in South Africa


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Burkina Faso, Capital: Ouagadougou. Key Seafreight Ports:

* None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast

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Burundi, Capital: Bujumbura. Key Seafreight Ports:

* None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Tanzania

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Cameroon, Capital: Yaounde. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Douala

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Central African Republic, Capital: Bangui. Key Seafreight Ports:

* None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Cameroon


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Chad, Capital: N'Diamena. Key Seafreight Ports:

* None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Cameroon


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Congo (The), Capital: Brazzaville. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Pointe Noire
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Congo (The Democratic Repablic of), Capital: Kinshasha. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Matadi
* Boma
* Banana
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Djibouti, Capital: Djibouti. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Djibouti

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Egypt, Capital: Cairo. Key Seafreight Ports:

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Alexandria
*
Port Said
*
Suez
*
Damietta
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Equatorial Guinea, Capital: Malabo. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Malabo (in Island)
* Bata (on African continent)

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Eritrea, Capital: Asmera. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Assab
* Massawa

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Ethiopia, Capital: Addiss Ababa. Key Seafreight Ports:

* None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Djibouti

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Gabon, Capital: Libreville. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Libreville
* Port Genti

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Gambia, Capital: Banjul. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Banjul

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Ghana, Capital: Accra. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Tema
* Takoradi
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Guinea, Capital: Conakry. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Conakry
* Kamsar
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Guinea Bissau, Capital: Bissau. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Bissau
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Ivory Coast, Capital: Abijan. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Abijan
* San Pedro

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Kenya, Capital: Nairobi. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Mombasa
* Lamu
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Lesotho, Capital: Maseru. Key Seafreight Ports:

* None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in South Africa

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Liberia, Capital: Monrovia. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Monrovia
* Buchanan
* Cape Palmas
* Greenville
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Libya, Capital: Tripoli. Key Seafreight Ports:

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Tripoli
*
Benghazi
*
Tobruk
*
Marsa el Brega


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Madagascar (Island), Capital: Antananarivo. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Toamasina
* Mahajanga
* Antsiranana

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Malawi, Capital: Lilongwe. Key Seafreight Ports:

* None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Tanzania


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Mali, Capital: Bamako. Key Seafreight Ports:

* None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Senegal and Gambia

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Mauritania, Capital: Nouakchott. Key Seafreight Ports:

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Nouakchott
*
Nouadhibou

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Morocco, Capital: Rabat. Key Seafreight Ports:

*
Casablanca
*
Agadir
*
Tangier
*
Melilla (under Spanish jurisdication)

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Mozambique, Capital: Maputo. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Maputo
* Beira
* Nacala
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Namibia, Capital: Windheoek. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Walvis bay
* Luderitz

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Niger, Capital: Niameyt. Key Seafreight Ports:

* None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Nigeria


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Nigeria, Capital: Abuja. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Apapa (Lagos)
* Port Harcourt
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Rwanda, Capital: Kigali. Key Seafreight Ports:

* None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Tanzania

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Senegal, Capital: Dakar. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Dakar
* Kaolack

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Sierra Leone, Capital: Freetown. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Freetown

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Somalia, Capital: Mogadishu. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Mogadishu
* Berbera
* Merca
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South Africa, Capital: Pretoria (administrative); Cape Town (legislative); Bloemfontein (juducial). Key Seafreight Ports:

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Durban*
*
Cape Town
*
Port Elizabeth
*
East London
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Sudan, Capital: Khartoum. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Port Sudan
* Suakin
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Swaziland, Capital: Mbabane. Key Seafreight Ports:

* None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in South Africa


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Tanzania, Capital: Dar Es Salaam. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Dar es Salaam

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Togo, Capital: Lome. Key Seafreight Ports:

* Lome

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Tunisia, Capital: Tunis. Key Seafreight Ports:

*
Tunis
*
Bizerta
*
Sfax
*
La Goelette


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Uganda, Capital: Kampala. Key Seafreight Ports:

* None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Kenya



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Western Sahara, Capital: None. (Territory contested by Morocco and Polisario Front). Key Seafreight Ports:

*
Ad Dakhla
*
Laayoune (El Aaiun)
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Zambia, Capital: Luska. Key Seafreight Ports:

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None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Tanzania
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Zimbabwe, Capital: Harare. Key Seafreight Ports:

* None. Land Locked country. Ocean freight via ports in Tanzania
 
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#120 ·
Nigeria's container traffic is fragmented which could be why its ports dont feature higher up. Apapa usually handles about 45% of all Nigerian container traffic, Tin Can 35% and the other ports share the remaining 20%. Using 2014 numbers, that would mean Apapa did over 800,000 TEUs and Tin Can 600,000+. More than 1.4 million TEUs combined which is not too shabby. And traffic is growing at a decent 5-10% per year.
 
#126 ·
Combobulate gave some fresh stats here before:


2014 total throughput data in TEUs for most of the continent's top 20 container ports has been trickling in.

Port Said East (Egypt) - 3,400,000

Tanger Med (Morocco) - 3,077,764

Durban (South Africa) - 2,664,330

Alexandria (Egypt) - 1,567,089

Luanda (Angola) - 1,055,200

Mombasa (Kenya) - 1,012,002

Cape Town (South Africa) - 892,557

Djibouti (Djibouti) - 864,027

Algiers (Algeria) - 857,000

Casablanca (Morocco) - 846,714

Damietta (Egypt) - 707,342

Ngqura (South Africa) - 705,377

Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) - 658,000 (estimate)

All Nigerian Ports (Apapa-Lagos + TinCan-Lagos + Onne + Delta + Rivers + Calabar) - 1,853,966


Still unknown

Tema (Ghana), Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire), Pointe Noire (Congo), Sokhna (Egypt), Port Sudan (Sudan), Rades-Tunis (Tunisia)



A half decade ago the maritim traffic was mainly dominated by Egypt and South Africa as i reported here:



^^

The anglophone african countries had always a large advance in containers' activity Cote d'Ivoir, Morocco, Sénegal and Tunisia try to resist, concerning Tunisia works in Big Enfidha port will begin in 2015.







Source : Jeuneafrique. Total by country in 2010, Kenya is comming to avoid francophone ports rattrapage !!


The stats published by WB concerning all East African ports is as follow :




Source : WB
 
#125 ·
Presentation on LAPSSET Development

December 2014 | LCDA Kenya




Brief Media Tour of Lamu Port last week ahead of the Presidential Commissioning of the 3 Berths of LAPSSET on 26th of May 2015




LAPSSET CEO Silvester Kasuku explaining to media the channel route to the 3 Berths at Kilalani










The Police Station







The KPA/LAPSSET Headquarters in Lamu


I have seen some LAPSSET presentations by Silvester Kasuku in the past. He seems passionate about the project. Hopefully construction will match his passion.

Side note, I see this a lot in Kenya. Whenever they show you the finished product, it is almost like they forgot the aesthetics part of the whole thing when telling you the construction is done. Example the police station above is complete but in my eyes the Flag should not have been raised until some one made sure that lawn was taken care of. Multiple presidents are going to be at this thing next week and the weeds are growing there. unless they did something in the last 3 days.
 
#127 ·
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Nador West Med dans les starting Block :

Le montage financier de Nador West Med se précise
4 JUIN 2015 8 H 41 MIN0 COMMENTAIRES


Devant s’étaler sur une période de 4 à 5 ans, les travaux du projet portuaire Nador West Med devraient s’activer dans les mois à venir. Et pour cause, son montage financier prend forme. Le projet sera en effet finalement en partie cofinancé par la banque européenne pour la reconstruction et le développement (BERD), la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) et un fonds d’investissement arabe basé au Koweït. Le package financier pèse près de 800 millions d’euros.
http://www.challenge.ma/le-montage-financier-de-nador-west-med-se-precise-49862/
 
#129 ·
2015 performance data for some of the continent's largest container ports is now available. Container volume for several ports is down from the previous year in part reflecting changes in the economic environment.

Tanger Med (Morocco) 2,964,324 down
Durban (South Africa) 2,770,335 up
Alexandria (Egypt) 1,661,917 up
Mombasa (Kenya) 1,076,118 up
Djibouti (Djibouti) 912,000 (estimate) up
Luanda (Angola) 911,000 (estimate) down
Cape Town (South Africa) 888,976 down
Casablanca (Morocco) 853,008 up
Algiers (Algeria) 851,743 down
Tema (Ghana) 782,502 up
Damietta (Egypt) 719,547 up
Ngqura (South Africa) 636,663 down


No information yet -
Port Said (Egypt)
Apapa (Nigeria)
Tin Can (Nigeria)
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
Pointe Noire (Congo)
Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire)
Sokhna (Egypt)
Port Sudan (Sudan)
 
#131 ·
By:www.chinadaily.com.cn
Djibouti port signs partnership agreement with China's Qingdao port

DJIBOUTI - The port of Djibouti and China's Qingdao port have signed a partnership agreement in the Djibouti capital.

The agreement, which was signed on Wednesday by Djibouti port's director general Saad Omar Guelleh and the vice-president of Qingdao port Cheng Xinnong, aims to reinforce Djibouti port's human resource capacities and logistical means.

It also aims at increasing exchanges between the Djibouti port and Qingdao port in China.

"The partnership will boost operations at the Djibouti port and it will offer it new prospects in various domains, given that Qingdao port has a much development port sector. We therefore intend to benefit from its expertise and its logistical as well as technological prowess," the director general of Djibouti port said.

The vice-president of Qingdao port hailed the "important" role played by Djibouti port in facilitating international trade at regional level.

"China and Djibouti enjoy excellent relationship and the partnership we have sealed today will reinforce the friendship between our two nations. Qingado port will offer all the necessary skills and will support efforts to develop Djibouti port," Cheng said.

Situated on the Yellow Sea, Qingdao port is one of the most frequently visited ports in the world. It is today the third in China and seventh in the world with capacity to hold 15 million containers on transit each year....................See more
 
#134 ·
SSA ports by accumaleted length of container quays

I compiled this list using the most recent imagery available from Google Earth.

1. Durban - 3,000 m (2016)
2. Lagos - 2,500 m (2016)
3. Mombasa - 2,000 m (2016)
3. Nelson Mandela Bay - 2,000 m (2016)
4. Cape Town - 1,700 m (2016)
5. Djibouti - 1,350 m (2016) + 600 m u/c
6. Daressalam - 1,200 m (2016)
6. Luanda - 1,200 m (2016)
7. Port Sudan - 1,150 m (2016)
8. Lomé - 1,000 m (2015)
9. Pointe-Noire - 800 m (2016)
10. Tema - 750 m (2015)
11. Abidjan - 700 m (2016) + a whopping 1750 m u/c (link)
11. Dakar - 700 m (2016)
11. Lobito - 700 m (2016)
12. Massawa - 650 m (2013)
13. Douala - 600 m (2015)
13. Kribi - 600 m (2015)
13. Maputo - 600 m (2016)
13. Namibe - 600 m (2016)
14. Nouakchott - 550 m (2016)
15. Contonue - 500 m (2015)
15. East London - 500 m (2016)
15. Monrovia - 500 m (2016)
15. Walvis Bay - 500 m (2016) + 600 m u/c
16. Beira - 450 m (2016)
16. Libreville - 450 m (2016)
17. Freetown - 350 m (2016)
17. Mogadishu - 350 m (2016)
17. Nacala - 350 m (2016)
18. Conakry - 300 m (2016)
19. San-Pédro - 200m (2015)
19. Tanga - 200 m (2016)
 
#135 ·
Durban harbour goes hi-tech

Transnet is using drones to improve operations at the Durban harbour, including delivering packages to ships and monitoring the notorious congestion on Bayhead Road.

In the future, they may even be used to pilot ships into port, reducing the need to send a pilot to the vessel.


Drones have many applications such as checking water quality and conducting hull inspections - this 'Waste Shark' drone cleans pollution on the surface of the water.

Details of a three-month trial drone programme emerged at the African Ports Evolution conference at Durban’s ICC on Tuesday.

Information and communication manager at the Port of Durban, Ristha Joga, said: “It provides us a real-time view of the operations, terminals, the artery roads leading into the port environment. We used it to look at the traffic congestion at the Bayhead Road area.

“We also used it to conduct a package drop-off to a vessel and that solution is being adapted with virtual reality technology as well as audio capability.”

Dropping a pilot on a vessel from a helicopter could be hazardous, said Joga. A drone, on the other hand, could provide a good view of the passage ahead and be used to guide the ship’s own pilot.

“A port like Durban will have two aerial drones and three aquatic drones. Aquatic drones will be able to give us water quality at a point in time.”

They also performed hull inspections.

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/durban-harbour-goes-hi-tech-2081635
 
#139 ·
African Container Ports in the Global Top 100 in 2016


49 Port Said (Egypt)
Throughput 2016: 3,035,900 teu, down 12.3% (2015: 3,462,400 teu)

51 Tanger Med (Morocco)
Throughput 2016: 2,964,278 teu, up 0.1% (2015: 2,961,837 teu)

63 Durban (South Africa)
Throughput 2016: 2,620,000 teu, down 5.4% (2015: 2,770,335 teu)

87 Alexandria (Egypt)
Throughput 2016: 1,633,600 teu, down 3.2% (2015: 1,688,301 teu)


https://lloydslist.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/one-hundred-container-ports-2017
 
#141 ·

The opening of three new ports over the past two months is bolstering Djibouti’s efforts to increase its share of transit and trans-shipment traffic in East Africa.

Maritime drive

In May the $590m Doraleh Multipurpose Port was officially inaugurated on schedule after two years of construction, following major expansion works by the China State Construction Engineering Corporation. The upgraded port, which was backed by the Djibouti Ports and Free Zone Authority (DPFZA) and state-owned China Merchants Port Holding, has a total annual capacity of 8.8m tonnes, spanning 690 ha with 15 berths, each of which is 1.2 km in length.

The following month saw the opening of the $90m Tadjourah Port. Located in the Gulf of Tadjourah, the 30-ha port includes a facility for handling 200 tonnes per hour of potash – a key Ethiopian export. The port’s other facilities include two linear quays of about 435m in length and a 190-metre roll-on/roll-off terminal.

Aboubaker Omar Hadi, chairman of the DPFZA, told the media that longer term, the port would have the capacity to handle 35% of all goods heading for Ethiopia. “This makes Tadjourah not only significant for Djibouti but the wider region,” he said last month.

Just one week after the Tadjourah facility became operational, the country also formally opened the $64m Goubet Port.

Built by China Harbour Engineering Company, the mineral port will enable Djibouti to export salt and gypsum deposits from Lake Assal. Djibouti is targeting exports of 6m tonnes of salt annually from the port, which is located some 40 km south of the Gulf of Goubet and has the capacity to berth vessels of 100,000 deadweight tonnage.

The next phase of Djibouti’s port project pipeline involves the construction of the $640m, 645-ha Doraleh International Container Terminal, which is expected to be operational by 2020 and will be run by the Port of Djibouti and China Merchants Port Holdings.

International ambitions

Djibouti's location provides easy access to many of Africa's fastest-growing frontier markets – including 95m-person Ethiopia, which relies on Djibouti for more than nine-tenths of its external trade – and has been one of the primary factors underpinning China's interest in its transport infrastructure.

The country also lies on the route of approximately 60% of global maritime traffic, – including major shipping lanes between Europe, the Middle East and Asia – and at a critical junction on the Maritime Silk Road, the sea segment of China’s ambitious, multibillion-dollar transport corridor project.

As a result, China has been investing heavily in Djibouti. In addition to helping finance and build the recently opened port facilities, plans also include creating new warehouse and office space alongside the Djibouti Free Trade Zone. China Merchants Port Holdings is set to lead construction on the $7bn, 10-year project, having signed a 2015 agreement with the DPFZA.

The infrastructure spending has borne fruit. The country jumped 20 places in the World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index between 2014 and 2016, for example, moving up from 154th position to 134. Capital investment in Djibouti’s ports was also listed as a key driver of the economy this year in the government’s budget, in which it predicted a GDP growth rate of 7% – up from 6.5% last year.

However, competition for maritime traffic from other regional players is on the rise, particularly as Ethiopia – with a GDP growth rate of around 8% as of 2016, according to the IMF – looks to increase its access to the sea. In April, for example, it secured 19% access and usage rights at Somaliland’s Berbera Port in northern Somalia.

Nearby Kenya and Tanzania are also both investing billions into upgrading and inaugurating new ports, with the objective of expanding their share of transit and trans-shipment trade to regional markets.
1- The Doraleh Multipurpose Port



2- Tadjoura Port



3- Goubet mineral port

 
#143 ·
Ten years of Tangier Med, the port that connects Morocco to global trade



The first Moroccan export port, Tangier Med is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. Inaugurated in 2007, the Tangier Med 1 container terminal has reached its operating capacity and Tanger Med 2 has been in full construction for two years. Tangier Med, a port area that aims to be one of the most important wheels of international trade.

Tangier Med is a project integrated in a free industrial and logistics zone. A very young port whose traffic is today 3 million containers. And when Tanger Med 2, under construction since 2015, will be delivered, this port located on the southern bank of the Strait of Gibraltar will process 9 million containers per year.

Fouad Brini, is chairman of the Supervisory Board of Tangier Med. He explains that Tangier Med I represents "3 million twenty feet in terms of containers. It is almost 50 million tonnes in terms of flows traded. Tanger Med is connected to 170 ports and more than 70 countries. "Then he adds that" thanks to Tangier Med, Morocco, which was ranked as most African countries, apart from Egypt and possibly South Africa that are at 25 or 30 ranking levels. at the level of global connectivity (most African countries are ranked in the 60th, 70th, 80th place), is the 16th in the world, according to the UNCTAD ranking. "

One-way flow of goods

Tanger Med connectivity integrates Africa, but the continent is still a simple receiver of goods, admits Fouad Brini. "Tangier is connected to 37 African ports. In terms of maritime volume, it is 38% of the traffic, so it is the most important part: it is a hub, firstly African; the remaining 62% is shared between Europe, America and Asia. The flows are rather in a sense in terms of activities, for a very simple reason, it is that Africa exports very little, unfortunately. What it exports is raw materials, and raw materials do not always go into containers. He says.

Tangier also sees some tourists

The port of Tangier Med also has a passenger terminal with ships that also carry vehicles, sedans, coaches and trucks. The director of this port, Hassan Abkari, gives some figures. "As we are located almost 14 km from the first European border, which is the port of Algeciras, we receive almost 2.7 million passengers a year and almost 267,000 trucks each year. It is a traffic that serves the port of Algeciras ... but also other European ports such as the ports of Sète in France, Genoa and Livorno in Italy. Of the 2.7 million passengers, only 10% are foreigners who are tourists or business travelers to Tangier, the remaining 90% are Moroccans living in Europe, who spend their holidays in their home country. 'origin.

Locally, for ten years, the Tanger Med project has allowed the creation of 65,000 jobs and the region is becoming the 2nd economic pole of Morocco.

Dix ans du Tanger Med, le port qui connecte le Maroc au commerce mondial

Premier port d’exportation marocain, Tanger Med fête ses dix ans cette année. Inauguré en 2007, le terminal à containers de Tanger Med 1 a atteint aujourd’hui sa capacité d’exploitation et Tanger Med 2 est en pleine construction depuis deux ans. Tanger Med, une zone portuaire qui ambitionne d’être l’un des rouages les plus importants du commerce international.

Tanger Med est un projet intégré dans une zone franche industrielle et logistique. Un port très jeune et dont le trafic est aujourd’hui de 3 millions de containers. Et lorsque Tanger Med 2, en construction depuis 2015 sera livré, ce port situé sur la rive sud du détroit de Gibraltar traitera 9 millions de containers par an.

....
http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20171122-10-ans-tanger-med-port-connecte-maroc-commerce-mondial
 
#144 ·
DP World wins 30-year concession for Congo deepwater port amid Africa expansion push
World's fourth-biggest port operator and Democratic Republic of Congo's government set up $1bn joint venture to manage and invest in Port of Banana



DP World, the world’s fourth largest port operator, won a 30-year concession to develop a $1 billion deepwater port along the Congo’s Atlantic coast, as the company forges ahead with plans to expand in Africa despite disputes to its business on the continent.

The Nasdaq-listed global ports operator will manage and develop the greenfield Port of Banana in a joint venture with the government of Democratic Repuplic of Congo, with the option of a 20-year extension, it said in an emailed statement. DP World will get a 70 per cent stake and the DRC government keeps a 30 per cent holding in the project. Construction will start this year and finish in two years.

The project will have “a major impact on the country’s trade with significant cost and time savings, attracting more direct calls from larger vessels from Asia and Europe, and ultimately acting as a catalyst for the growth of the country and the region’s economy,” Sultan bin Sulayem, DP World’s group chairman and chief executive, said

...

https://www.thenational.ae/business/dp-world-wins-30-year-concession-for-congo-deepwater-port-amid-africa-expansion-push-1.715881
 
#146 ·
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Djibouti is in talks with French shipping company CMA CGM to develop a new container terminal at an initial cost of $660 million (£465.9 million) as part of the tiny African country’s bid to expand into a sea and air transport hub for the continent.

Aboubakar Omar Hadi, chairman of the Djibouti Ports and Free Zone Authority (DPFZA), told Reuters on Tuesday that the authority hopes to award the concession in July. It was also prepared to buy out DP World’s stake in an existing container terminal to end a row with the Dubai port operator and avoid arbitration, he said.

Djibouti’s strategic location has led the United States, China, Japan and former colonial power France to build military bases there.

Its ports already serve as an entry point for cargo which is then sent by smaller vessels to ports along Africa’s eastern coast, but it is now seeking to become a sea-air trans-shipment hub for the entire continent.

To do this, Hadi said DPFZA was also planning to construct a $350 million airport and expand Air Djibouti’s fleet of cargo aircraft.

The new container terminal project could break ground as early as September with construction expected to take 24 months, Hadi said, speaking on the sidelines of the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

“We are going to build DICT, Doraleh International Container Terminal. This is a new plan,” he said. “We are in discussions with CMA CGM.”

The port authority was not in talks with any other potential partners, he said. Shipping group CMA CGM declined to comment.

Once operational, Hadi said the port terminal would boast an annual capacity of 2.4 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), but subsequent expansion phases would bring that up to 4 million TEUs.

Fifteen percent of the project’s cost will be financed through equity. Of that, the DPFZA will contribute 85 percent, with its concession partner providing 15 percent. The rest will be raised via international institutions and banks.


“We are targeting trans-shipment,” Hadi said.

Meanwhile, Hadi said the port authority was ready to end a dispute with DP World over its cancellation of a concession contract for another facility, the Doraleh Container Terminal, by buying out DP World’s 33 percent stake.

Djibouti ended the contract with the Dubai state-owned port operator last month, citing a failure to resolve a dispute that began in 2012.

DP World has called the move illegal and said it had begun proceedings before the London Court of International Arbitration, which last year cleared the company of all charges of misconduct over the concession.

“We are prepared to pay them their 33 percent of shares,” Hadi said. “There is no need for arbitration. We are going to buy their shares.”
 
#147 ·
Tanzanian traders laud improvements made at the country's major port



DAR ES SALAAM, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian traders on Friday welcomed improvements at the east African nation's major port of Dar es Salaam, calling for more investments to attract more importers from neighboring landlocked countries.

The traders commended the Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) for the improvements at a one-day port stakeholders' round-table conference to mark the 13th TPA anniversary, which brought together port stakeholders to discuss challenges and achievements at the port, and come up with the way forward to increase efficiency.

The Dar es Salaam port serves landlocked countries of Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Burundi.

Speaking at the meeting themed: "The Future of TPA as a catalyst for industrial development and social prosperity in Tanzania and beyond," the Secretary General of the Tanzania Freight Forwarders Association (TAFFA), Tony Swai, commended government efforts towards improving the port's operations.

...

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/14/c_137109504.htm
 
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